Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.
Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.
The joy late coming late departs.
When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.
An author departs; he does not die.
What Flaubert refers to as the “mélancholies du voyage” is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives.
As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.
That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.
For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.
The blessed Paul argues that we are saved by faith, which he declares to be not from us but a gift from God. Thus there cannot possibly be true salvation where there is no true faith, and, since this faith is divinely enabled, it is without doubt bestowed by his free generosity. Where there is true belief through true faith, true salvation certainly accompanies it. Anyone who departs from true faith will not possess the grace of true salvation.
False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.
The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.
