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I don’t seem to be able to depart. Waiting for Godot 2001 starring Stephen Brennan & Barry McGovern & Johnny Murphy & Sam McGovern et al, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Pozzo
It just goes to show. You leave Scranton – exciting things can happen. The Office US s5e12: The Duel, Michael, NBC 2008
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighbourhood. Christopher Columbus
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus
There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
And I realized that there’s a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go. Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything
I know absolutely nothing about where I’m going. I’m fine with that. I’m happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn’t really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It’s all blank pages waiting to be written on. It’s all about going forward. It’s all about uncertainty and possibilities. Gregory Galloway, As Simple as Snow
In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be tomorrow. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet II i 229-230, Juliet to Romeo
I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week. But let me state that I don’t want to leave Leicester. Stan Collymore
Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow’s dawn,
And calmly, as if indifferent quite,
You would close your term here, and be gone,
Where I could not follow
With wing of swallow
To gain one glimpse of you ever anon! Thomas Hardy, The Going
I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
She did not chuck me out. She invited me to leave. Rab C Nesbitt s2e2: Lesson, Jamesie, BBC 1992
No-one had ever had a leaving party before because no-one had ever been anywhere before. Goodbye Charlie Bright 2001 starring Paul Nicholls & Roland Manookian & Danny Dyer & Phil Daniels & David Thewlis & Jamie Foreman & Frank Harper & Dani Behr & Brian Jordan & Lucy Bowen & Nicola Stapleton et al, director Nick Love, commentary
Hero: Whose leaving?
Head of gang: You are. Stone Cold 1991 starring Brian Bosworth & Lance Henriksen & William Forsythe & Arabella Holzbog & Sam McMurray & Richard Gant & Paulo Tocha et al, director Craig R Baxley