Going Away Quotes

“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin, New Chronicles of Rebecca

“Hearts aren't handcuffs and people aren't prisons. When you feel it's time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.”
― Beau Taplin

“Everything was okay today, but I am not feeling okay. I think that when the things you like go away, you die a little bit inside, and I think that it takes a long time for you to feel okay again.”
― abraham m. alghanem, Summer and Autumn

“When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

“I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Moon and More

“...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Inside the pub, Richard's friends continued to celebrate his forthcoming departure with an enthusiasm that, to Richard, was beginning to border on the sinister.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Their new normal will be something that won’t include me.”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“What went away was never yours
Why whine and shed tears?
If you loved it so much
Hide it in your heart as souvenir…”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“You never quite know when you may hope to repair the damage done by going away.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

“If you hate it, if you find you have made a mistake, it will still have been a change. As with a holiday, if it ends in your wishing to come home, its aim is accomplished.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, A View Of The Harbour

“He hung his head, sighing deeply as his hand tightened on mine. 'Feyre... I wish...' He shook his head and cleared his throat. 'I'm sending you home, Feyre.'

Something inside me splintered. 'What?'

'I'm sending you home,' he repeated, and though his words were stronger- louder- they trembled a bit.
...
My chest caved in. Leaving- free. 'Did I do something wrong-'

He lifted my hands to press it to his lower cheek. He was so invitingly warm. 'You did nothing wrong.' He turned his face to kiss my palm. 'You were perfect,' he murmured onto my skin, then lowered my hand.

'Then why do I have to go?' I yanked my hand away.

'Because there are... there are people who would hurt you, Feyre. Hurt you because of what you are to me. I thought I would be able to handle them, to shield you from it, but after today... I can't. So you need to go home- far from here. You'll be safe there.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I don’t face sadness when friends leave because friends always come back. Yet when lovers leave, it’s like death. You’ll never see them again.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Besides, nothing mattered to her any longer. If she had anything left it was her horror of cold — and the uncle had coal through his contacts. But she found the atmosphere of Berlin hard to bear. She dreamed of escape, of going to live under some more clement sky, far, very far away from it all, closer to nature.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“He hung his head, sighing deeply as his hand tightened on mine. 'Feyre... I wish...' He shook his head and cleared his throat. 'I'm sending you home, Feyre.'

Something inside me splintered. 'What?'

'I'm sending you home,' he repeated, and though his words were stronger- louder- they trembled a bit.
...
My chest caved in. Leaving- free. 'Did I do something wrong-'

He lifted my hand to press it to his lower cheek. He was so invitingly warm. 'You did nothing wrong.' He turned his face to kiss my palm. 'You were perfect,' he murmured onto my skin, then lowered my hand.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“There was a softness in goodbye, but it never softened the absence.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I wonder if I will miss the moss
after I fly off as much as I miss it now
just thinking about leaving.”
― Jane Mead

“Whenever the experiment on and of
my life begins to draw to a close
I’ll go back to the place that held me
and be held. It’s O.K. I think
I did what I could. I think
I sang some, I think I held my hand out.”
― Jane Mead

“Going away has something to do with the search in general--for love, for the beautiful girl or woman who is to fulfill a man's truth and reality, for recognition, for acceptance, for work, for enthusiasm about the whole human experience, but most of all going away is a search for one's best self.”
― William Saroyan, Places Where I've Done Time