Quotes about Departure
Wonderful to depart! Wonderful to be here! The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood! To breathe the air, how delicious! To speak—to walk—to seize something by the hand! To prepare for sleep, for bed, to look on my rose-color'd flesh! To be conscious of my body, so satisfied, so large! To be this incredible God I am! To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love. - from Song at Sunset
— Walt Whitman
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not our last hello.
— Charles Martin
Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.
— Charles Spurgeon
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France?
— Henri Matisse
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
— Robert Byrne
I go, but I always remember you.
— Isabel Allende
Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.
— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
— Toni Morrison
He dragged her under him and made love to her with the steadiness and the intensity of a man about to leave for Dayton.
— Toni Morrison
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
— Victor Hugo
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
— Victor Hugo