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Quotes About Departure

It is appalling not to be there to console someone for the pain you cause by leaving . . .
~ Simone de Beauvoir
and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;
~ Sophocles
Pues así como estoy, me voy a ir. Venid, venid, compañeros los que estáis presentes y ausentes; y con hachas en las manos corred hacia el lugar famoso. Y yo, puesto que mi opinión así ha cambiado, y yo mismo la aprisioné, quiero estar presente para salvarla; pues temo no sea la mejor resolución el vivir observando las leyes establecidas.
~ Sophocles
Now he'll tear himself from his native earth, not linger, curse the house with his own curse.
~ Sophocles
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence
~ Haruki Murakami
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.
~ Haylie Duff
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
~ Henry Van Dyke
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
~ J. K. Rowling
As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.
~ Jane Levy
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.
~ Jessamyn West
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
~ Socrates
You rarely get closure when you leave something unknown.
~ Karishma Magvani
I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.
~ Ken Poirot
If you are going somewhere. Go, only if you're coming back.
~ Priya Malik
group of people who had received the gospel but had then succumbed to a dilution of it so that they had departed from the basic Christian
~ John N. Oswalt
Am impresia c? toat? viaÅ£a mi-o petrec luându-mi r?mas bun.
~ John Osborne
Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.
~ John Piper
A few of the people I had known were gone—even in that short time—back to the Midwest or to Times Square, or had been busted, or moved to Coffee Andy's in Hollywood, or gone to Golden Miami. They had disappeared, one day: One day youre here and thats fine, and the next day your gone and thats fine too, and someone has that very day come in to take your place whatever it might have been.
~ John Rechy
Ar fi trebuit s? fiu altceva, ceva ce nu simte nici un fel de durere. La noapte, reflect? el, frem?tând de anticipaÈ›ie, voi fugi de durere. ?i nu m? voi mai întoarce niciodat?.
~ John Saul
Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life
~ John Scalzi
the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation: in fine, that all those females whom he had sought, apparently on account of their virtue, had, since his departure, thrown even the mask aside, and had not scrupled to expose the whole deformity of their vices to the public gaze.
~ John William Polidori
He felt vaguely that he would be leaving something behind, something that might have been precious to him, had he been able to know what it was.
~ John Williams
I have come to understand Terentia, I believe. In her own way, she might have been wiser than any of us. I do not know what has become of her. What does become of people who slip quietly out of your life?
~ John Williams