Quotes About Going away

The ultimate purpose of Zen," I remembered the röshi telling me, "is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.

Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave taking, the going away from the self he had been.

Am I allowed to be happy you're going? I mean shit, I thought I was just going to work outdoors for a few months. Now I know my beautiful dreamer will be with me? This just turned to paradise.

Someone's screaming from the basement, who's going away tomorrow; and I'm no particular age. I have no fear.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

When I awoke on the verandah I saw a grey morning, smelt the rain on the red earth, and remembered that I had to go away.

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

You never quite know when you may hope to repair the damage done by going away.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

She had fat arms, the type of arms that held sailors and soldiers and thieves. The kind of arms that held someone who was going away to jail for ten years. They were the arms of a woman who had eaten a hundred delicious cakes and pastries to get them this comfortable.

Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

You heard Me say, ëI am going away, and I am coming back to you.í If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.