Departing Quotes

• 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

  Hands, Forever, Promise

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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

  David Bowie

  Journey, Musician, Arriving

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• 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

  Travel, Anchors, Tourism

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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

  Paul P. Enns

  Jesus, Home, Heaven

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.59, Moody Publishers

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• 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

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

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• 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

  Comedy, Patient, Hospitality

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• 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

  Beautiful, Death, Sweet

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.861, Delphi Classics

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

  Roger Moore

  Thinking, America, Airports

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• 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

  Art, Order, Color

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

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Farewell, Winter, Behind You

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• 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

  Depression, Reality, Mad

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Robert Scheid

  Heart, Soul, Feelings

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wind, Political

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Inspiration, Struggle

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Law, Environmental

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• 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

  Love, Men, Portraits

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• 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

  Summer, Spring, Looks

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.358

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

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Sun, Strange

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Train

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.274, Anchor

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• 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

  Writing, Pleasure, Chapters

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.221, Hot Key Books

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• 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

  Pieces, Paper, Delicacy

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Past, Giving, Shadow

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

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• Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  Jan Perry

  Creativity, Thinking, Feet

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