Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting. — Sergei Yesenin
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. — Richard Bach
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as real, never knowing I could feel. — Pocahontas
So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies — Jack Kerouac
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you. — Leonard Cohen
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. — William Hazlitt
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss. — Seneca
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Happy trails to you, until we meet again. — Dale Evans
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. — Dalai Lama
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. — Marie Antoinette
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
Short Farewell Friend Quotes
A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part. — Redd Foxx
Who ceases to be a friend never was one. — Proverbs
you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you — Cecelia Ahern
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me. — Anne Boleyn
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye
My love, you are in my heart.
It was preordained we should part
And be reunited by and by.
Goodbye: no handshake to endure.
Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow.
There's nothing new in dying now
Though living is no newer. — Sergei Yesenin
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you. — Dale Evans
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. — Ouida
Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West
The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward! — Brittany Maynard
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! — Robert Pollok
Your strongest muscle
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. — William Shenstone
Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world or a character. They do become our best friends. I've probably spent more time with them over the past 22, 24 years than I have spent with most of the real members of my family. — Robin Hobb
There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles — Joshua Kadison
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
The funny thing is I showed my daughter E.T. recently, and she was like, it's Pete's Dragon. It's a boy, who makes friend with a creature, and has to say goodbye at the end. I'd never made that connection! — Kevin Feige
My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. — Ronald Reagan
I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day. — Benjamin Spock
How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends. — Bryan Davis
Good Bye Friend Quotes
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. — Frederick Buechner
Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible. — Henry Fielding
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. — Edward Young
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness. — Todd Phillips
Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye. — Sathya Sai Baba
But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it. — A. A. Milne
Farewell Love Quotes
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. — Ernest Hemingway
You're searching...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles. — Robert Frost
Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. — Lord Byron
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. — Anna Brownell Jameson
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? — Allen Collins
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. — William Shakespeare
I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation. — Greg Norman
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. — Diane Arbus
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. — Walt Disney
Goodbyes are not forever
Goodbyes aren't final, when
You only mean we'll miss you
Until we meet again — John Walter Bratton
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. — Charles M. Schulz
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye. — Erica Jong
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. — Jean Paul
Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Farewell Quotes
When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. — Clark Gable
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. — Charles Tennyson Turner
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. — James Weldon Johnson
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. — Ernest Hemingway
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. — Ernest Hemingway
The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist. — Ernest Hemingway
Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life. — Rick Riordan
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. — Thomas Francis Meagher
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me. — Ernest Hemingway
Good Farewell Quotes
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? — George Washington
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. — William Shakespeare
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. — James M. Barrie
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
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. — Gilda Radner
Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly. — Peter S. Beagle
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. — John Steinbeck
Saying Farewell Quotes
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. — Etty Hillesum
It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it. — Aesop
I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from. — Tommy Chong
You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you? — Ernest Hemingway
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it. — Victor Hugo
Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning. — Aron Ralston
When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
We can laugh about how time really flies,
We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes. — Joshua Kadison
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret
People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to. — Fulton Oursler
Goodbye Quotes
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye. — Pocahontas
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. — Helen Rowland
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup. — Tennessee Williams
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. — Gilda Radner
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. — Jimi Hendrix
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. — Ann Landers
Good Goodbye Quotes
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. — Paulo Coelho
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. — Carrie Underwood
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden
It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss. — Cornell Woolrich
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
And though you want to last forever,
You know you never will,
You know you never will,
And the good-bye makes the journey harder still. — Cat Stevens
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
True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. — Barbara Johnson
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. — Donald Cargill
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Farewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friend,
Drinking to engender wit. — John Wilmot
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. — Donald Cargill
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing. — Richard Parks Bland
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. — Donald E. Westlake
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing. — Richard P. Bland
Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. — James Gates Percival
Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends. — Sydney Schanberg
The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime. — Yoon Sang-hyun
I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell -- I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
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
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr. — Robert Burns
It's never over till it's over with a friend. — Howard Jacobson
Farewell my friends, I go to glory. — Isadora Duncan
Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone. — R. A. Salvatore
Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns. — Ray Bradbury
Last night I dreamed I was still human, but now I have woken up, into something better. Farewell, my friends, farewell. — Simon R. Green
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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