Quote by Proverb

Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)

Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)

Summary

This quote encapsulates the bittersweet nature of parting ways with someone or something. It suggests that every time we leave, we experience a small death, as we leave behind a piece of ourselves or lose something valuable. It highlights the emotional toll and the sense of loss that accompanies departing or saying goodbye.

Topics

Last Words

By Proverb

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the f

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

Johann von Goethe

Youth

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe t

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Poetry

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy,

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book.

Work Science Help

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Life

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and rela

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Knowledge

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alr

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

Trust

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives m

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Imagination

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulg

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

Age

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a tot

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Government

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Truth

No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with

No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some men I know, their love for Moe, Larry, and Curly (and an assortment of fourth bananas) is deep, abiding, and unembarrassable. In other words: How could the Farrellys not?