Quotes About Departure

Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Well, I guess we're off, like a herd of mad turtles as my dad used to say.

eux ils entendaient leur jeunesse frapper à leurs portes comme un oiseau enfermé.[...] C'était l'hymne de l'avenir, des départs, du terme de l'impatience. Ce qu'ils attendaient c'était de rejoindre cet air né du vertige des villes pour lequel il était fait, où il se chantait, des villes croulantes, fabuleuses, pleines d'amour.

à force de voir tant de films, tant de gens s'aimer, tant de départs, tant d'enlacements, tant d'embrassements définitifs, tant de solutions, tant et tant, tant de prédestinations, tant de délaissements cruels, certes, mais inévitables, fatals, déjà ce que Suzanne aurait voulu c'était quitter la mère.

Je suis quelqu'un qui ne sera jamais revenu dans son pays natal

Kisses on the body bring tears. Almost like a consolation. At home I don't cry. But that day in that room, tears console both for the past and for the future. I tell him one day I'll leave my mother, one day even for my mother I'll have no love left. I weep. He lays his head on me and weeps to see me weep.

Petite âme, âme tendre et flottante, compagne de mon corps, qui fut ton hôte, tu vas descendre dans ces lieux pâles, durs et nus, où tu devras renoncer aux jeux d'autrefois. Un instant encore, regardons ensemble les rives familières, les objets que sans doute nous ne reverrons plus… Tâchons d'entrer dans la mort les yeux ouverts...

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you

Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.

You're my wife," he said. "I want to take care of you, even if that means someday seeing you to the train.

I should leave, she told herself once or twice, to savor the thought of their surprise, their regret. What a childish idea. Then Jack would leave, no doubt, so that should would come back, as she would have to do, and her father would be plunged in sorrow of which she was directly the cause, and which would not end in this life.

Leaving here is like waking from a trance.

his eyes, he thought that in a few hours he, Lucrecia, and Fonchito would be crossing the skies, leaving behind the thick clouds

Ik bracht hem naar de luchthaven Charles de Gaulle en toen ik hem bij de balie van Japan Air Lines de hand drukte, voelde ik dat hij een klein metalen voorwerp tussen mijn vingers liet glijden. Het was een huzaar van de keizerlijke garde. 'Ik heb hem dubbel,' legde hij uit, 'hij zal je geluk brengen, beste jongen.

Y partió al alba, solo, como parten los héroes».

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

You can come back, his father had said. Why leave if I'll come back? Alessandro had asked, and then had quoted Horace. 'New skies the exile finds, but the heart is still the same.