Best Departed Quotes
107 Departed quotes by 93 unique authors
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and…
— Hervey Allen
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Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method was simply to…
— Michael Shaara
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Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
— Publilius Syrus
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The darkness has departed and the night stars have passed by, you have touched my life like never before and I cannot stop thanking God…
— James Wallace
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His huff arrived and he departed in it.
— Alexander Woollcott
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...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.
— Herman Melville
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Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking…
— Sam Keen
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The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am…
— Socrates
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The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer…
— Douglas B. Reeves
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There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.
— William Weld
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All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage…
— H. Rider Haggard
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We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus]…
— Vincent de Paul
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Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
— Virginia Woolf
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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely…
— George Berkeley
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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun…
— Thomas Browne
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I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of…
— Robert Walpole
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
— Edwin Newman
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I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when…
— Og Mandino
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The Heavenly City already exists and the departed Saints are already there!
— David Berg
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How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the…
— Charles Lamb
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