Departing Quotes

• 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, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Promise
  • Parting
  • Vanishing

• 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, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Study
  • Color
  • Matter

• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wisdom
  • Models
  • Departing

• 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 with more passion.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Death
  • Passion
  • Garden

• Paris is not the final destination. It is, if anything, the departing station.

  

  Christiana Figueres
  • Paris
  • Station
  • Departing

• Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

  

  William Muir
  • Moments
  • Hours
  • Yesterday

• Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Summer
  • Spring
  • Aspect