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Quotes About Departure

I wanted to tell you both that I'm leaving for Korea," Megan announced. "In about half an hour." Evan's jaw dropped and Doug froze in his tracks. He turned around slowly and plastered a smile on his face. "Finally," he said. "Yeah, well, before I go, there's something I want to say to you guys," Megan said. "Famous last words?" Doug asked sarcastically.
~ Kate Brian
y en país sin nombre me voy a morir
~ Gabriela Mistral
I didn't know how else to leave
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He has joined the great majority.
~ Gaius Petronius
Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't know which way any of them will go.
~ Galway Kinnell
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul; I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she breathed out and then she had no more needs. She was released from her body and, being released, she continued her journey elsewhere. High in the heavens where soul material gathers and plays out all our dreams and joys.
~ Garth Stein
These are the multiple shadows because there were a lot of things she walked away from without a word of explanation when she was younger & she still thinks about them more than she needs to.
~ Brian Andreas
He turned to the startled king, still kneeling on the floor stunned. He threw the sword clanging onto the floor by Saul. "That is what you should have done." Saul was speechless. Samuel said, "I am going to Ramah. Our paths shall never cross again — this side of Sheol." Samuel left.
~ Brian Godawa
Suddenly, a gush of wind seemed to flow through the room. It was more like a sucking of air leaving him breathless, and the air thick and heavy. A new despair came over him, but not from his confusion and unanswered questions. It was more like the answer to all his questions. He felt it deep in his soul. He knew with a clarity he had never known before that Yahweh had departed. He had left Saul, and he was never going to return.
~ Brian Godawa
And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.
~ Brian Moore
What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.
~ Brian Moore
What about those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner to buy cigarettes and are never heard from again? This is Paris. I am here. What if I never go back?
~ Brian Moore
It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...
~ Brock Thoene
I hope there is something left for you in this life," Abitha said, and turned and headed away.
~ Brom
I realized I had to leave or become an erased soul inside a physical shape pantomiming the motions of life.
~ Bruce Bauman
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
~ Bruce Catton
Not long thereafter, Danny appeared with us for the last time, at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on March 20, 2008. In the band we all knew this was it. We wouldn't see Danny onstage again.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I sneezed and she was gone.
~ Bryan Costales
Slowly it floats more and more away
~ Herman Melville
As his former ship moves off, Budd shouts, Good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man.
~ Herman Melville
I'm so happy that I suddenly feel cold, tenatized by a joy that freezes me. He says 'I'm wrecked, I traveled all day hitchhiking to catch up with you, let's go to your hotel.' I had only dreamed and dream of nothing but the moment I would find myself alone with him in my hotel room, and yet my lips drily reply, 'We'll go later, let's go to the screening first.' At the end of the screening, Vincent announces that he's leaving again; a burning misery follows an icy joy.
~ Hervé Guibert
Pherae. He was Ortilochus' son, whose father was Alpheus, and there they spent the night. [490] Diocles offered them the hospitality he owed to strangers who stayed there as his guests. As soon as rose-fingered early Dawn appeared, they hitched their horses, climbed in the splendid chariot, and set off from the echoing portico
~ Homer
Moderation is best in all things, and not letting a man go when he wants to do so is as bad as telling him to go if he would like to stay. One should treat a guest well as long as he is in the house and speed him when he wants to leave it.
~ Homer