Quotes about Departure
As his former ship moves off, Budd shouts, Good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man.
— Herman Melville
if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.
— Beth Moore
... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
— Cormac McCarthy
You shall leave everything you love.
— Dante Alighieri
He turned his back and went through the door into the cool beyond. Momma backed up inside herself for a few minutes. I forgot everything except her face which was almost a new one to me. She leaned over and took the doorknob, and in her everyday soft voice she said, "Sister, go on downstairs. Wait for me. I'll be there directly.
— Maya Angelou
Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. Hebrews 3:12
— Beth Moore
The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God.
— Billy Graham
Death is not a trip, but a destination.
— Billy Graham
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
— St. Augustine
The more we become sensitive to our own journey the more we realize that we are leaving and coming back every day, every hour. Our minds wander away but eventually return; our hearts leave in search of affection and return sometimes broken; our bodies get carried away in their desires then sooner or later return. It's never one dramatic life moment but a constant series of departures and returns.
— Henri Nouwen
Our children are our most important guests, who enter into our home, ask for careful attention, stay for a while and then leave to follow their own way. Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.
— Henri Nouwen
What is happening here is an unheard-of event: hurtful, offensive, and in radical contradiction to the most venerated tradition of the time. Kenneth Bailey, in his penetrating explanation of Luke's story, shows that the son's manner of leaving is tantamount to wishing his father dead.
— Henri Nouwen