Arrival And Departure Quotes

#1. For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. 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.

Joseph Brodsky

#3. Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#4. When he changed his mind, very suddenly, expressing increasingly grave reservations into a series of hotel phones, I found myself adrift, stunned by the swift arrival and even swifter departure of everything I thought I lacked.

Olivia Laing

#5. So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

Alan De Jager

#6. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Coco Chanel

#7. A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.

Erich Maria Remarque

#8. Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

Doc Watson

#10. Did you know that life is kind of like school? So how about when you're all done with the school of life,

Shirley Bahlmann

#11. A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.

Tom Robbins

#12. To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.

Hannah

#13. The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

John Dyer

#14. Since we had nothing to do with our arrival and usually are not consulted about our departure, what makes so many of us think we're entitled to so much while we're here?

Malcolm Forbes

#15. When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.

Andrew O'Hagan

#16. Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates itself, so also does the multiplicity of the appearances of the world have ONE center, which orders and holds everything together.

Valentin Tomberg

#17. One immutable law of travel is that one's arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch.

Sue Grafton

#18. Visits always give pleasure
if not the arrival, the departure.

Portuguese Proverb

#19. Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

Dejan Stojanovic

#20. In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.

Johann Lamont

#21. Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

Omar Khayyam

#22. Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

Steve Zahn

#23. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.

Victor Hugo

#24. We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Robert Anthony

#25. ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were concatenated without abruption.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.

Claire Messud

#27. I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

William Shakespeare

#28. In a couple of days after our arrival, it already became clear that our things were lost forever and would never be found. They put in the paperwork that Emirates Airlines had lost it, although we knew for sure it was all stolen by those girls in the airport of our first departure.

Sahara Sanders

#29. The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Klemens Von Metternich

#30. When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

Witi Ihimaera

#31. Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure.

Coco Chanel