Quotes About Departure

To reach escape velocity, my grandmother, like any spacefarer, would be obliged to leave almost everything behind her. A moment after he

When she first saw him, standing at the threshold of the reception room, contemplating departure before he had even arrived, she thought he had an American face, an American body. Buick shoulders, bulldozer jaw. Only if you considered his eyes would you be forced to conclude, and she did conclude, that he was beautiful.

Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.

Good-bye, Harry.

As the Professor left, Marek said, "I pray God look with favor upon your journey and deliver you safe back." That was what he always said to departing friends. It had been a favorite phrase of the Count Geoffrey de la Tour, six hundred years before.

Then the feeling moves on. It does not collapse; it is not whisked away. It simply moves on, like a train that stops at a small country station, stands for a while, and then continues out of sight.

Even as she helped the team of software guys and former Obama officials build the model that persuaded Newsom to shut down the state, Charity had decided that she was leaving. As children, she and her older sister had a phrase to describe the unsettling sensation of fresh doubt about some situation or some person: black smoke. The black smoke had rolled into state government with the virus and never left.

The Irish people and their country are like lovers whose passion is heightened by their suspicion that they will probably wind up leaving each other.

Well. it's all been extremely interesting,' Hannah declared, standing to leave. 'But if I'm honest, I'd prefer my life to be a lot more mundane from now on.

Goodbye, Queen. You have lost your champion now." I jumped. I landed in a rosebush that ripped at my skin

For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered.

All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses.

As we left they told us the old joke. To start a journey in a sandstorm is good luck.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

Two years after his departure from Harvard, Alpert embarked on a spiritual journey to India and returned as Ram Dass

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.

They said the moment I fell in love with you was the moment you'd leave.

If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.