Finals Quote by John Green

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.…

— John Green

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with…

— Jack Kerouac

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

— Mason Cooley

It was like the calm just as one engaged in battle, Will thought, when thought fled and inevitability took over.

— Cassandra Clare

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

— Karen Russell

“The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

— Sun Yat-sen

“I hid all the things I was feeling-- and indeed I did not know what they were, except that all the peace of that…

— C.S. Lewis