To leave a place is to die a little

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.

Cowards die many times

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism

Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you