Farewell Quotes
- “Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
until we meet again!”
- “Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”
-Jean Paul Richter
- “You and I will meet again, when we're least expecting it, one day in some far off place,
I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, for you and I will meet again.”
-Tom Petty
- “A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.”
- “Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before we can meet again and meeting again,
after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.”
-Richard Bach
- “It is the end of something simple and the beginning of everything else.”
- “True goodbyes are the ones never said or explained.”
- “There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.”
- “Even the strongest person can be drawn to tears or heart break from a simple ‘Goodbye.’”
- “The return makes one love the farewell.”
-Alfred De Musset
- “Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”
-Jean Paul Richter
- “I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.”
-Charles M. Schulz
- “It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain,
for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.”
-Henry David Thoreau
- “Those we love don't go away, they walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, s
till missed and very dear.”
- “While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.”
-Mary Wortley Montagu
- “Farewell relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching,
praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches and sufferings.”
-Donald Cargill
- One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you’ve changed your life by saying, “Farewell to Fart.”
-Richard Simmons
- “I can tell by your tears that you will remember it all.”
- “Saying goodbye isn’t the hard part, it’s what we leave behind that’s tough. We only part to meet again.
Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. You never leave someone behind; you take a
part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind.”
- “Why are the words goodbye, I’m sorry and I love you, so easily pronounced, but so hard to say?”
- “We Only Part to Meet Again.”
-John Gay
- “All Farewells Should Be Sudden, When Forever.”
-Lord Byron
- “True friends don't say good-bye; they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.”
- “Never say goodbye cause you will never know when you are going to lose them.”
- “Good byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.”
- “I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.”
-Miriam Makeba
- “On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the
long stone buildings.”
-Nellie Bly
- “The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.”
-Galeazzo Ciano
- “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
- “This is no material that is harder than saying goodbye.”
- “In the hope to meet shortly again, and make our absence sweet.”
- “I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.”
-Christa McAuliffe
- “May your old age and retirement be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine best to drink,
old friends best to trust, and old authors best to read.”
- “Here is my retirement farewell: I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension.”
- “It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it.
Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.”
-Richard Ford
- “Love your job but never fall in love with your company because you never knew when it stops loving you.”
-Christine Lim
- “The bitter word which closed all, earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love- farewell.”
- “This is farewell. I shall wait beneath the moss until the flowers are fragrant
In this island country of Japan.”
-Hideki Tojo
- “Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.”
-Emily Dickinson
- “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
-Robert Southey
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
-A. A. Milne
- “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
-Helen Rowland
- “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”
- Washington Irving
- “It was very emotional to be home and do one last farewell show. I was going on to my new life, which was very important for me.”
-Celine Dion
- “Farewell to a friend.”
-Jason Cook
- “This is perhaps the Negroes' temporary farewell to the American Congress; but let me say; Phoenix-like he will rise up
some day and come again.”
-George White
- “Spock Prime: To Spock- as my customary farewell would seem oddly self serving, I will simply say...good luck.”
-Star Trek
- “Farewell my native country and farewell my Dear Friends - May you and I so live that we may reasonably expect to meet again to
our unspeakable comfort where the wicked cease from troubling and our happy Souls for ever be at rest.”
-Nathaniel Smith
- “A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.”
-Jean Paul Ritcher
- “I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we
hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive.”
-Stephen Edwin King
- “You loose opportunities due to lack of experience; by the time you gain experience its time to bid farewell to the journey called life.”
-Suraj Menon
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
-Annie
- “Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.”
-Boris Pasternak
- “Hope, withering, fled, and Mercy sighed farewell.”
-Lord Byron
- “Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, housed in a dream, at distance from the kind!”
-William Wordsworth
- “Those, to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.”
- “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
-Garrison Keillor
- “To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.”
-George Lansdowne
- “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
-George Eliot
- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go." Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never,
ever the same.”
-Flavia Weedn
- “Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
-Winnie the Pooh
- “Say Goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.”
-Billy Joel
- “So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good.”
-John Milton
- “Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy
in my veins.”
-R.M. Grenon
- “The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that
come with a rush from the heart.”
-Alan Alda
- “When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but
don’t forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.”
-Henry Louis Mencken
- “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
-Lazurus Long
- “Farewell! For in that word – that fatal word – however, we promise – hope – believe – there breathes despair.”
-Lord Byron
- “Come; let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls
once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.”
-William Shakespeare
- “The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
-Jimi Hendrix
- “There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.”
-Gandhi
- “May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the
rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.”
- “Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”
-Trey Parker
- “I will not say good bye, I will say see you soon.”
-Catherine Pulsifer
- “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
-Kahlil Gibran
- “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.”
-Elizabeth Bibesco
- “Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.”
- “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
-Helen Keller
- “Forever and forever farewell, cassius! If we do meet again, why we shall smile; if not, why then this parting was well made.”
-William Shakespeare
- “I cannot say good-bye to those whom I have grown to love, for the memories we have made will last a lifetime and
never know a good-bye.”
- “Absence frοm whom we like іѕ worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
-William Cowper
- “How lucky I am to hаνе something that mаkеѕ saying goodbye іѕ hard.”
- “The purpose of retirement is not simply to exist, to simply survive, but to elevate oneself in life, to have purpose, to achieve,
and to conquer new horizons.”
- Dave Erhard
- “Being strong sometimes means being able to let go.”
- “Someday, when we both reminisce we’ll both say, ‘There wasn’t too much we missed,’ and through the
tears we’ll smile when we recall we had it all for just a moment.”
- St.Elmo’s Fire
- “Where is the “good” in goodbye?”
- Meredith Wilson
- “You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!”
- “Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that
wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need.
I need more hellos.”
- Snoopy
- “Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”
-William Shakespeare
- “Our friendship with you is special and we hope it never ends. Even though you'll be miles and miles away let’s
stay the best of friends.”
-Jon Bratton
- “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.”
-Tryon Edwards
- “Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the
memories that we hold.”
- “Nothing makes the earth seem as spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
-Henry David Thoreau
- “Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.”
-Elizabeth Barret Browning
- “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”
-Ivy Baker Priest
- “But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”
-Edward Young
- “So hold her closer when she cries, hold her closer when she feels. She needs a hand to hold, someone who will never let her go again.
And hold him closer when he tries to hold the tears back from his eyes. Don't say Goodbye.”
- “So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
-William Shenstone
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