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Quotes About Departure

I sang the mothers and fathers out, into the stars and the nothing beyond them, into which we will follow them, at the end of our turn.
~ Sharon Olds
When anyone escapes, my heart leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, I am half on the side of the leaver.
~ Sharon Olds
God-bye, for the rest of this life and for the long nothing.
~ Sharon Olds
I called for him through solid earth until he woke, and left.
~ Sharon Olds
But now it was time to go beyond comfort, to part.
~ Sharon Olds
Isia stepped forward. "Yes, sir. I know." Holding his fine brilliant wings above his body, he stood in front of us with his luminous lidless eyes full upon us. "I'm sorry to leave you. We've shared a lot together, and you have loved me even when I was ugly. But we'll see each other. Good-bye.
~ Sheila Moon
And then she left, my peace of mind tucked into her pocket along with her nice little notebook.
~ Sheila Webster Boneham
This whole pre-criminal investigation, where we watch everybody, all the time, just in case, is really an extraordinary departure from the Western liberal tradition.
~ Edward Snowden
The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.
~ Greg Behrendt
So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Listen up," I said urgently. "It's time to round up your gear. I'm gonna check in with Patrick, and then we're getting the flock out of here." Ha-ha.
~ James Patterson
There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
~ Tennessee Williams
TimeYou were the oneI wanted mostto stay.But time could notbe kept at bay.The more it goes, the more it's gone—the more it takes away.
~ Lang Leav, Lullabies
When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose
~ Sunday Adelaja
Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.
~ Diana Krall
Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
In a few more days, Christina thought . . . this would all be over . . . She would try to recall how he had looked, how he had sounded, what he had said. He would be gone.
~ Mary Balogh
He rode away from her with the deepest regret.
~ Mary Balogh
Please believe me, darling, it will break my heart in two to leave you here. But I cannot take you. I must go quickly. Please understand.
~ Mary Balogh
Had he done the right thing to let her go without a word or a letter? Was he right to leave it so, to disappear from her life?
~ Mary Balogh
He had vaulted into the saddle and ridden down the driveway away from the sea and the cliffs, and away from her, without a backward glance. She had watched him, an ache in her heart, until a line of trees finally hid him from view.
~ Mary Balogh
WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Stella Maris is on her way out of the solar system
~ Mary Doria Russell
Never more to find her where the bright waters flow...her smiles have vanished and her sweet songs flown
~ Mary Downing Hahn