Flying Away Quotes

I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
- Carol Rifka Brunt

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
- Bobby Darin

She was incapable of dragging herself away from him; Even though talking over the situation with him had shattered her, being without him would have been even worse,as if it were only his presence that was stopping the pieces flying away in all directions.
- Lauren Henderson

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.'...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.
- Alice Hoffman

It was the oldest sound there was. Souls flying away.
- Sue Monk Kidd

Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away. The memories will disappear and there will be nothing left.
- Henning Mankell

There are things you can't reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.
The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.
And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.
I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.
Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around
As though with your arms open.
- Mary Oliver

We live in a silent explosion, Everything is flying away from everything else... flying away... flying away..
- Jerry Spinelli

Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.
- Rose Tremain