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Quotes About Departure

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
~ Nico
The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.
~ J. K. Rowling
I'm going now. My time has come.
~ Daniel Boone
There's never a right time to say goodbye.
~ Chris Brown
Sun, I come to see you for the last time.
~ Jean Racine
There is a time to take a stand and there is a time to take your leave.
~ Chip Ingram
When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on
~ Mark Messier
[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.
~ Antonio Banderas
Very soon the train came puffing up into the station; then two or three minutes, and the doors were slammed to, the guard whistled, and the train glided away, leaving behind it only clouds of white smoke and some very heavy hearts.
~ Anna Sewell
We live forever; but they don't come back.
~ Anne Rice
Maybe we do go home, finally.
~ Anne Rice
Do you know how it wounds me to leave behind the one city in the world with which I'm truly in love?
~ Anne Rice
It was typical of him that he lacked the taste to make a final exit. He spent too long at his farewells, chatting in the doorway, letting in the cold.
~ Anne Tyler
Her three children, she saw, had been staring at the horizon with the alert, tensed stillness of explorers at the ocean's edge, poised to begin their journeys. And Delia, shading her eyes in the distance, had been trying to understand why they were leaving. Where they were going without her. How to say goodbye.
~ Anne Tyler
just meant I had to get up the next morning and tell Denise, 'Don't fix any breakfast for me; I'm moving out
~ Anne Tyler
Seems like you are always loving the people that fly away from you, Ben Joe, and flying away from the people that love you.
~ Anne Tyler
And the pain she'd felt all those years before hadn't been so much that he'd left, but that he didn't love her enough to stay.
~ Shana Galen
Let's get out of here, my mother said.
~ Sharon Creech
I hoped and prayed that they would someday forgive me for leaving them. I hoped and prayed that I would someday forgive myself for leaving them.
~ Sherman Alexie
And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I'm not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There's the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If that's all you came to talk about, you know where the exit is. Or should I reacquaint you with the street, butt first? (Terri)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.
~ Cornelius Nepos
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
~ Elia Kazan