Quotes About Departing

#1. Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

Dick Winters

#2. We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Desmond Tutu

#3. I understood very well just then, why it is that men measure time. They wish to fix a moment, in the vain hope that doing so will keep it from departing.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. Sometimes in life, we reach a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Gail Carriger

#6. For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Garth Nix

#7. According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.

Alain De Botton

#8. True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Seneca The Younger

#9. Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.

Alex Abreu

#10. No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling possessed deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived

Robert Abbott

#11. A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year ...

Shelby Foote

#12. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. Don't be attached to the future. Don't worry about things you have to do. Don't think about getting up or taking off to do anything. Don't think about departing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.

M. John Harrison

#15. Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times.

Rick Perlstein

#16. Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.

Edward Rutherfurd

#17. My heart was tightening painfully, as it had after our first parting. Oh, how I was glad of this feeling! Could it be that youth wishes to return to me with its wholesome storms, or is this only its departing glance, its last gift, as a keepsake ... ?

Mikhail Lermontov

#18. The vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those times, when her aloneness took on a darker hue, that she almost wished there would be no more guess, for then there would be no chasm of emptiness for her to negotiate when they were gone.

Jacqueline Winspear

#19. Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

#20. The soldier looked around the dusty airfield to see troops and supplies being dropped off and flown away with an equal lack of ceremony. Unfortunately, his platoon was just arriving, and the plane that brought them was just departing. A hot wind

J. Scott Matthews

#21. My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.

Rob Payne

#22. But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

James Russell Lowell

#23. Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action.

Robert Scheid

#24. I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

Emile Zola

#25. Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

James Gates Percival

#26. Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern Seaboard.

Martin Filler

#27. Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

Richard Le Gallienne

#28. Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.

Steve Erickson

#29. Death is approaching,
life is departing,
but eternity is motionless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#30. I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Vincent Van Gogh

#31. When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

Marya Hornbacher

#32. thought to tell me before departing,

Diana Gabaldon

#33. I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Robert Benchley

#34. She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was.

Laura Moriarty

#35. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

#36. If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

#37. Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#38. Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.

Michael Ignatieff

#39. [T]he departing world leaves behind ... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

Alexander Herzen

#40. I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing ship, stranding me in the middle of a huge silence.

Sylvia Plath

#41. The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

David Bowie

#42. And I was wondering how to depart without self-loathing or sadness, or with as little as possible, when a kind of immense sigh all around me announced it was not I who was departing, but the flock.

Samuel Beckett

#43. Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

Thomas Jefferson

#44. Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

Margaret Atwood

#45. A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Victor Hugo

#46. Every believer departing this old earth ... immediately transitions into heaven and is welcomed home by Jesus himself.

Paul P. Enns

#47. The pleasure of homecoming is more than recompense for the pains of setting out, and therefore it is always worth departing.

Louis De Bernieres

#48. Departing summer hath assumed
An aspect tenderly illumed,
The gentlest look of spring;
That calls from yonder leafy shade
Unfaded, yet prepared to fade,
A timely carolling.

William Wordsworth

#49. The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

Simone De Beauvoir

#50. Yes, well, how was I to know you would be so dramatic? Really, Francine, I don't know where you get it from." Then she primly grabbed the fowling gun before departing from the room.

Jade Lee

#51. The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

Alexander Pope

#52. Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

Thomas Aquinas

#53. This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

Charlotte Bronte

#54. I am a wave on a shoreless sea.
From no beginning
I travel to no goal,
Making my movements stillness.
Constantly I am arriving
And departing,
Being born and dying.
I am always with you
And yet have never been.

Tony Crisp

#55. Her mighty eyebrow rose like a kite catching the wind, flock of geese fleeing a shotgun blast, excursion balloon departing carnival grounds.

Dennis Vickers

#56. To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind.

Orhan Pamuk

#57. I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

Roger Moore

#58. Optimism is not fantasy. It hopes for the best reality without departing from it.

James Randall Robison

#59. Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#60. Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Jessamyn West

#61. My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

Anne Giardini

#62. Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#63. While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella

Santosh Avvannavar

#64. Two people departed ... in search of love ... leaving love in between

Santosh Avvannavar

#65. Naked I came into the world and naked I will depart out of it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#66. I shall not go out at all
given that my love is here
shall always stay attached to these hearts.
I shall never bid farewell to this place!
But I have to send this body
anyhow from here.

Suman Pokhrel