[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a…

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the…

— Alexander Herzen

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

— Martin Filler

It's so painful to depart from a place where you'd grown with full of reminiscence. But nothing is more agony when you depart from…

— Rain3031

Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along…

— Sam Hamill

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love…

— Emile Zola

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

— Margaret Atwood

Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank…

— Alex Abreu

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only…

— Michael Ignatieff

My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but the grousing…

— A. O. Scott

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient…

— Clifton Fadiman

“Sometimes in life, we reach a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!”

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track,…

— Jessamyn West

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself…

— Anonymous

Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where…

— Takuan Soho

The departing year: my grey hair I needn't hide from parents now gone.

— Seifu