Departure Quotes

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  There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.

  Lilli Palmer

  People, Personality, Arrivals

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

  Tori Amos

  Inspiration, Order, Different

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• The only certain freedom's in departure.

  Robert Frost

  Certain

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Tomorrow, Unexpected

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• The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

  Richard Linklater

  Ideas, Waking Life, Arriving

  "Fictional character: Boat Car Guy". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Love Is, Depth, Depth Of Love

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.730, Simon and Schuster

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• Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

  Enver Hoxha

  Struggle, Destiny, Class

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

  Antonio Porchia

  Travel, Adventure

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

  Petrarch

  Curiosity, World, This World

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, 4th Of July, Independence

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  William A. Henry III

  Slippery Slope, Firsts, Facts

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• What you know is just a point of departure. So let's move!

  Keorapetse Kgositsile

  Moving, Past, Knows

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• The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

  Socrates

  Change, Death, Wisdom

  Charles Walters, Socrates (1994). “Socrates' - the Lost Dialogues”

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• To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Distance, Views

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “Can Such Things Be?”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

  Iain Sinclair

  Travel, Journey, Doubt

  Iain Sinclair (2004). “Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath: a narrative in twelve tales”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

  Plato

  Life And Death, Greek, God Knows

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

  Joe Biden

  Opportunity, Arafat

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• I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

  Peter Bichsel

  World, Convinced

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• I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks' and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Girl, Character, Thinking

  "Cozy Up to The Class' Queen of Snark!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 7, 2006.

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• The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

  Elihu Root

  War, Wish, Facts

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, People, Criticism

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Journey, Doctrine, Poet

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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