Departure Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Space, Sea, Tides

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• She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Regret, Flower, Men

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• I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.

  Colin Firth

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Islands, Reminders, Arrivals

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.

  Orville Dewey

  Future, Forever, Strange

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• It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Religion, Corruption, Instance

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• Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Our World, Hands, Life And Death

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Dark, Sacrifice, Boys

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• 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

  Kissing, Two, Velocity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.148, Bantam

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• I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair of jeans and they feel different; so, when you're dealing with these sort of costumes it's a very big departure and really does make you feel quite different. But it's wonderful.

  Eric Bana

  Jeans, Pairs, Costumes

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.

  Gunter Brus

  Art, Believe, Drawing

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Changing, Past, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.102, Vintage

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• Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Heart, Reflection

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• She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

  Fay Weldon

  Running, Sibling, Order

  Fay Weldon (1997). “Worst Fears”, p.130, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Night, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Looks, Alive

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• to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Dying, World

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• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Wheat Fields, Color, Foxes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Earth, Despise

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• Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Evil, Darkness

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• ...if I die suddenly, my gravestone might appropriately offer this insight into my departure: "God got tired." I require lots of work.

  Beth Moore

  Tired, Might, Gravestone

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.86, B&H Publishing Group

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• Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

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• The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

  William Goldman

  Morning, Sorry, Feelings

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.

  Tea Obreht

  Knowing, Suffering, Gone

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• What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.

  John Flanagan

  Mean, Usual, Gestures

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