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Quotes About Departure

I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.
~ Terry Goodkind
It was the terror of impermanence, the knowledge that all this would pass away, that a beautiful voice or a wonderful figure was something whose arrival you couldn't control and whose departure you couldn't delay.
~ Terry Pratchett
I DON'T WANT TO GO.
~ Terry Pratchett
Mind how ye go, hag o' hags. Ye'll be sore missed.
~ Terry Pratchett
From the moment we're born, death is our final destination. Only the date and time of our arrival is unknown.
~ Tess Gerritsen
So they decided against me. Now I will have to go through that door after all,—like all those others. They'll draw the curtains for me, too. Into that other room—then back across the passage— saying good-bye as I go, like those others. I will not be here any more. He seemed to be going over each step in his mind—each step with which he was so familiar, only now, for the first time, he was living it for himself.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
~ Irina Shayk
Kenny Dalglish was absolutely right: anyone that doesn't want to be at Liverpool can leave. Players will come and go.
~ Pepe Reina
I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.
~ Karen Hesse
You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.
~ Karen Marie
I asked you to leave, Grimm Roderick. What are you still doing here?" she said coolly. "Is that you, Jillian?" He stepped closer, peering through the shadows. "Have so many other women at Caithness demanded you depart that you're suffering confusion about my identity?" she asked sweetly, plunging her shaking hands into the holds of her cloak.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Do you wish to? I'm leaving on the morrow. 'Tis now or never, lass." He waited, watching her. "Some chances come but once, Chloe, and swift are gone.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Don't leave me." "I'm not, Mac." "You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.
~ Karen Marie Moning
You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Abruptly excusing himself
~ Karen Miller
How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it.
~ Karen Russell
All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between
~ Karen White
I've been the sheriff here for about five years now, and I'm surprised we haven't met." "She's been gone awhile--out to California," Trip explained. The Sheriff nodded, replacing his hat,"Sorry to hear that.
~ Karen White
I never thought my actions would cause you to leave. I'm so sorry." I closed my eyes briefly. "It's not what made me leave, Daddy. But it's one of the things that made it easy to stay away.
~ Karen White
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
~ Karl Marx
elephant vanish from the
~ Karl Shaw
And shall I clutch at dear departing things While leaf and tree in silent splendor part? Go, little joys! and welcome, fluttering wings That brush my clinging sorrows from my heart!
~ Karle Wilson Baker
wouldn't stay long. She told
~ Kat Martin
We'll finish our business, and as soon as we get the chance, we'll come back." The minute the words were out of his mouth, he realized his mistake.
~ Kat Martin