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Quotes About Return

We will be back soon, Achilles said, again.
~ Madeline Miller
Traédmelo de vuelta —les dijo
~ Madeline Miller
It's a marriage of convenience. Temporarily, so long as our interests coincide, however long it takes to dispose of that mob of petit blancs at Port-au-Prince. Afterward,' he waved his sticky fingers airily, 'everything will return to the way it was before.
~ Madison Smartt Bell
Toda vida tiene un núcleo, un eje, un epicentro del que todo sale y al que todo vuelve.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicenter, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns. This moment is the absent mother's.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
In Damascus: the traveler sings to himself: I return from Syria neither alive nor dead but as clouds that ease the butterfly's burden from my fugitive soul
~ Mahmoud Darwish
I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work, and their hurry to return to their folk … and their need to say: Good Morning …
~ Mahmoud Darwish
What would happen if I were to become A child again? And I returned to you… and you returned to me.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
~ Unknown
Harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish.
~ Unknown
Todos los muertos vuelven si los llama el amante con la fuerza necesaria.
~ Unknown
Giden bir erkek, asla geri dönmemelidir.
~ Marc Levy
taking the rest with them back to London, along with their plunder and prisoners.
~ Unknown
the vikings would see if they could extract ransoms for the safe return of valuable books.
~ Unknown
Æthelwulf set off in the direction of home. As on his outward journey,
~ Unknown
We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.
~ Marcel Proust
Those who have played a big part in one's life very rarely disappear from it suddenly for good. They return to it at odd moments … before leaving it for good.
~ Marcel Proust
the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.
~ Marcel Proust
Altogether, I had derived little benefit from being in Balbec, for which reason I was all the more determined to come back one day. I felt I had spent too short a time there.
~ Marcel Proust
For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.
~ John Milton
Hail, Son of the Most High, heir of both Worlds,   Queller of Satan! On thy glorious work   Now enter, and begin to save Mankind.     Thus they the Son of God, our Saviour meek,   Sung victor, and, from heavenly feast refreshed,   Brought on his way with joy. He, unobserved,   Home to his mother's house private returned.
~ John Milton
A Blessing is a powerful and positive intention that can transform situations and people. Whenever you give a Blessing, a Blessing returns to enfold you.
~ Unknown
Is it not possible that a place could have huge affection for those who dwell there? Perhaps your place loves having you there. It misses you when you are away and in its secret way rejoices when you return. Could it be possible that a landscape might have a deep friendship with you? That it could sense your presence and feel the care you extend towards it? Perhaps your favourite place feels proud of you.
~ John O'Donohue
You know that if you are graced with creative and compassionate and warm awareness, you are going to have and incredible life. You are going to have sufferings as well, but you will always return to that place of warmth and fire within yourself.
~ John O'Donohue