Departures Quotes

“I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Life is all arrivals and departures.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“In your life you will meet shooting stars. You will see them, make your wish and see them disappear.”
― Nahiar Ozar

“DEPARTURE

The horizon slopes away

The days are longer
Trip

A heart hops in a cage
A bird sings
It is going to die
Another door is going to open
At the end of the corridor
Where a star
Begins to shine
A dark-haired woman
The lantern of the departing train

("Departure")”
― Pierre Reverdy, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“You know, even when we leave a place, we leave our memories there and they will represent us in our absence! So, in reality, we will always continue to be in every place we depart!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.”
― Barbara Hodgson, The Tattooed Map

“For the last year and a half this room had been my 'pensive citadel:' here I had read and studied through all the hours of the night: and, though true it was, that for the latter part of this time I, who was framed for love and gentle affections, had lost my gaiety and happiness, during the strife and fever of contention with my guardian; yet, on the other hand, as a boy, so passionately fond of books, and dedicated to intellectual pursuits, I could not fail to have enjoyed many happy hours in the midst of general dejection. I wept as I looked round on the chair, hearth, writing-table, and other familiar objects, knowing too certainly, that I looked upon them for the last time.”
― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

“It is odd how, when you have announced that you are leaving, it is as if you are already gone, even if your physical departure still lies months away. People begin to erase you from their minds, and you walk the halls with a feeling of growing transparency.”
― Paul Watkins, The Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway

“In this mythology of seafaring, there is only one means to exorcise the possessive nature of the man on a ship; it is to eliminate the man and to leave the ship on its own. The ship then is no longer a box, a habitat, an object that is owned; it becomes a travelling eye, which comes close to the infinite; it constantly begets departures.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“BEING LATE

From where do simplicity and ease
In the movement of heavenly bodies derive?
It is precision.
Sun is never late to rise upon the Earth,
Moon is never late to cause the tides,
Earth is never late to greet the Sun and the Moon;
Thus, accidents are not accidents
But precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
Love is almost never simple;
Too often, feelings arrive too soon,
Waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
I wanted, too, to be simple and precise
Like the Sun,
Like the Moon,
Like the Earth
But the Earth was booked
Billions of years in advance;
Designed to meet all desires,
All arrivals, all sunrises, all sunsets,
All departures,
So I will have to be a little bit late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Time to leave
and a friendly bough
from a neighbor's tree
leans over the fence
to shake hands with me”
― john j geddes

“Go.

The word is my last and most beautiful gift.”
― Anne Fall, Rosa Scriptum

“There is a great danger in trying to punish the people you love with your absence: They may not feel as punished but rather relieved!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In the first hour of the new day, in the cold, strong wind that already reaches our native shores, yes, in this one moment of eternally returning regret I realise: what staggers us, over and over again, is the morning splendour of departure!”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“I think,
That all departures,
Teach one
To celebrate the togetherness
Of the moments spent
In contentment,
Rather than grieving
For the loss.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Garden of Fragility