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Quotes About Departure

And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
~ Nicole Krauss
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
No deseaba morir, pero había momentos, como cuando Grace se marchó, en que lo ansiaba impaciente, como uno espera el momento de un viaje que no tiene especial deseo de emprender. Y como cualquier viajero, sentía que había muchas cosas que tenía que hacer antes de irse, si bien no recordaba cuáles.
~ John Edward Williams
Leave town, Henry. Leave before they trap you
~ John Fante
What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.
~ John Flanagan
How long will you be gone?
~ John Flanagan
lay quietly. "Were you planning on leaving us?" he added mildly.
~ John Flanagan
Rockets and Quasars Rockets and quasars Planets and stars. I'm fed up with Earth So I'll see you on Mars. John Rice
~ John Foster
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
~ John Green
Gregson?' 'Why, because he ran off
~ John Hall
And they are gone: aye, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.
~ John Keats
Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.
~ John Lee
she'd called me wanting to get out
~ John Lescroart
The next morning, my grandfather's staff lined up at the gangway to shake his hand and bid him an affectionate farewell.
~ John McCain
On the way to the train station, my mother said that she wasn't going to wash my sheets after I left. Sometimes, she said, she slept in my bed for one or two nights, because the bed still smelled like me. She smiled conspiratorially, and I felt my heart constrict.
~ Elif Batuman
Go to hell." Io said. Rudolf nodded. Then he picked up his raincoat, turned around, and went to hell. Up to then, I hadn't been impressed by the quality of the writing, but that ending blew me away. He turned around, picked up his raincoat, and went to hell.
~ Elif Batuman
But the road was still sunny, the gulls cried out. Neil was gone, and for a second, Jem felt something he thought might be peace.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Because Tarik was dead.
~ Eliot Schrefer
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As you wish, my lady. Keep your crown, and your cruelty. Love me not. I will go.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sebastien said nothing, but his lips burned with Jack's warmth as he shut the door behind himself and turned to face the stair.
~ Elizabeth Bear