Quotes About Departure

In fact, the first hug I ever remember getting from my mother was the day I left for prison.

From the top of the ramp he looked back and saw them go, their glasses crashing to the flagstoned paths and brick paved patios, their cigarettes dropping like poisoned fireflies. "I loved you," the girl said. "Or at least I liked you. You'll be gone in a moment and I can't even ask you to kiss me, because I'm going to be sick." "We're still here," John Edward told her, "both of us." And she was gone.

His spirit changed house, and vanished there, Where I have not been, so cannot say where.

In every parting there is an image of death.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

From Ride The High Country: "I'll see you later

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

I hope they'll understand why I did this, when it's all said and done... I'd hate to leave them. - Emma, about the Mercers

And that, I thought, was how you make a dramatic exit.

Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.

And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn't say good-bye, he didn't even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.

They love me. I love them. It should be easy." "Once you leave, it's never easy again. Or at least it's never the same. You're not the same. You can't expect them to be." She nodded. "Sometimes they feel like strangers. And still, I'd die to protect them.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

They did nothing wrong their time here has ended

When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.

I'm going to miss everybody but unfortunately... it's time to go

When you long for the port, it is time to leave the journey; when you long for the journey, it is time to leave the port!