“Ready to go but never to return.”

“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only, as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again; if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk.”

“When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.”

“......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.”