Departing Quotes

40 quotes by 38 authors

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. — David Bowie
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything… — Emile Zola
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend.… — James Russell Lowell
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait… — Alain de Botton
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. — Seneca the Younger
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for… — Oscar Romero
Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will… — Charles Caleb Colton
I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Our hearts and souls are always the departing point for all thought, feeling and action. — Robert Scheid
Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at… — Jan Perry
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the… — Rene Descartes
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 there… — Takuan Soho
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet. — Simone de Beauvoir
From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it… — Robert Southey
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing… — Alexander Herzen
People leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard-bound rule. A man with a clean heart canâ€™t… — L. Ron Hubbard
[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow. — Alexander Herzen
The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd… — Alexander Pope
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand,… — Richard Le Gallienne

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