Quotes about Departure

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

[Our physical illnesses] serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Let us know, therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for us but death.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

As virtuous men pass mildly away And whisper to their souls, to goe, While some of their friends doe say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise...

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.