Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience…

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

— Nahiar Ozar

Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.

— Lilli Palmer

“I left this morning saying ‘I love you’ as if setting out for some unknown country instead of the corner shop. I wanted you…

— Peter Bland

Islands are reminders of arrivals and departures.

— Gretel Ehrlich

“Sir, I’m afraid that the quality of this airline is partly measured by on-time departures. And unfortunately, on-time departures are measured by when we…

— Marcus Buckingham

“DEPARTURE The horizon slopes away The days are longer Trip A heart hops in a cage A bird sings It is going to die…

— Pierre Reverdy

“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…

— Barbara Hodgson

“Life is all arrivals and departures.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

— Heinrich Boll

In the history of the Premier League some of the most notable managerial departures have been English.

— David James

“For the last year and a half this room had been my 'pensive citadel:' here I had read and studied through all the hours…

— Thomas de Quincey

I think we go when it's time to go, that the departures are scheduled.

— France Gall

“Departures should be sudden.”

— Anonymous

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then…

— Jane Levy

“An airport cannot choose to only accept arrivals and not departures; there are valid times for travel in both directions. I cannot force people…

— Shasta Nelson