Best Departed Quotations
107 Departed quotes by 93 unique authors
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Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should…
— Kate Morton
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Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of…
— Richard Dawkins
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But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many…
— Haruki Murakami
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Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented...
— Kelley Armstrong
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Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp…
— Donna Tartt
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I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Tohru: Shigure is always smiling. But, I wonder if I gave him some problems with my request. Yuki: The only ones who can truly understand…
— Natsuki Takaya
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long…
— Jim Rohn
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Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell…
— Robert Breault
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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here.
— Saint Augustine
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The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The…
— John Updike
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My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is…
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their…
— Henry Rollins
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Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.
— Robert Blair
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So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
— William Adams
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Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The…
— Anthony Anderson
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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived…
— Bible
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Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut…
— Bible
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Men is a living being and his body is the only instrucment through which the soul seeks to envolves it personality. At the transition the…
— Jesse Joseph
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In visions of the dark night, I have dreamed of joy departed, but a walking dream of life and light, hath left me broken-hearted.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Have you ever lost a loved one? you'll probably never understand love til you've lost one. Where your heart at? I left mine behind when…
— Mobb Deep
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