Quotes About Departure

While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born.

Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt. I was outshone was usual by her heroism. But as we watched that pirogue drift away across the Kwenge, Mother gripped my hand so tightly I understood that I had been chosen. She would drag me out of Africa if it was her last living act as a mother. I think probably it was.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways.

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Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. From glen to glen, and down the mountainside. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling. It's you, it's you must go, and I must bide.

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

the sunlight closed behind them like an unregainable door.

The time was 08.27. Up on his platform Ivanovsky patted the Vostok one last time for luck. We loved our Vostok, he wrote later. We loved it with that love that comes with an inevitable parting. Then he descended to the ground.

At some point the living must let go of the dead.

Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.

Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.

Guardai senza rimpianti la casa-grande . L'amore per la mia classe, per i braccianti e gli operai, amore umano e grande, avrebbe ucciso l'amore meschino per la figlia del padrone. La pensavo così, e avevo ragione. Alla curva della strada mi voltai. Honório mi salutava con le sue mani enormi. Sulla veranda della casa-grande il vento scompigliava i capelli di Mária. Io partivo per la lotta col cuore pulito e felice.

KüçüÄŸüm hayat böyledir insanlar hep çekip giderler.

tenía ya esa despreocupación, esa indescifrable indiferencia de los que se van a morir algunos meses después.

The gods are leaving.

They departed in the form of white smoke, rose easily upward, waved their hands in parting, and viewed with pity all those who remained behind. Then they danced gaily in celebration of their new freedom, before disintegrating into the air.

When Golgoth finally left this place, these fragments would thaw, just as Morgan's had. I had to acknowledge that Grimalkin was dead.

If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..

Exit strategy