Quotes About Departure

This is not an exit.

The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo").

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

Zij ging vertrekken, maar zij wist nog niet waar zij uiteindelijk terecht zou komen. Zij moest iets volbrengen, maar zij had geen duidelijke voorstelling van wat dat was. Voorgevoel zei haar, dat een serene ouderdom voor haar niet was weggelegd.

Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.

There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

The more we become sensitive to our own journey the more we realize that we are leaving and coming back every day, every hour. Our minds wander away but eventually return; our hearts leave in search of affection and return sometimes broken; our bodies get carried away in their desires then sooner or later return. It's never one dramatic life moment but a constant series of departures and returns.

Our children are our most important guests, who enter into our home, ask for careful attention, stay for a while and then leave to follow their own way. Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.

what is happening here is an unheard-of event: hurtful, offensive, and in radical contradiction to the most venerated tradition of the time. Kenneth Bailey, in his penetrating explanation of Luke's story, shows that the son's manner of leaving is tantamount to wishing his father dead.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk.

muddle of farewells before we put off; we talked a little about the boat, our fellow-passengers and our prospects, and then I said: "I think you mentioned last night a name I know—that of Mr. Porterfield." "Oh no I didn't!

Oh he'll come back!" I said, glancing at his place.  The repast continued and when it was finished I screwed my chair round to leave the table.  Mrs. Peck performed the same movement and we quitted the saloon

At present, with her sense that the note of change had been struck, came gradually a host of images of the things she was leaving behind her.

Thus it is our daughters leave us, Those we love, and those who love us! Just when they have learned to help us, When we are old and lean upon them, Comes a youth with flaunting feathers, With his flute of reeds, a stranger Wanders piping through the village, Beckons to the fairest maiden, And she follows where he leads her, Leaving all things for the stranger!

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship

By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.

I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage where we couldn't live with or without each other. There's an element of truth, and I last left in 2005.

It was hard for me to leave because Everton were my boyhood club. I supported them from when I was a young kid.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another.

He travels best that knows when to return.

They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.