200 Goodbye Quotes

Following is our list of goodbye quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about saying goodbye.

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Famous Goodbye Quotes

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. — Patrick Marber

To say goodbye is to die a little. — Raymond Chandler

Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting. — Sergei Yesenin

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye! — Gene Wilder

you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you — Cecelia Ahern

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies — Jack Kerouac

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye — Beyonce Knowles

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye. — Waylon Jennings

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

Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. — Shel Israel

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

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. — George Sanders

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. — Bill Haley

So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams

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

Short Goodbye Quotes

  • A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye. — Anonymous
  • My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye. — Pocahontas
  • How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
  • The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin
  • 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
  • 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

Goodbye Image Quotes

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! - Christopher McCandless quote

I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! — Christopher McCandless

Goodbye quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Saying Goodbye Quotes

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

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

Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. — Paco Rabanne

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. - Paulo Coelho

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. — Paulo Coelho

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. - Garrison Keillor

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. — Garrison Keillor

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. — Cassandra Clare

Goodbye quote If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

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

It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. — Carrie Underwood

Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course. — Oswald Mosley

You can’t c*m on the moon. They don’t want you to know this because they need moon colonists but once you’re up there you can say goodbye to c*mming. — Duncan Trussell

Goodbye Love Quotes

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

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave. — Patrick Marber

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now. — Patrick Marber

Goodbye quote If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it. — Helen Humphreys

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

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. — Jean Dubuffet

Goodbye quote I didn't want to kiss you goodbye - that was the trouble - I wanted to kiss you goodnight.
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye - that was the trouble - I wanted to kiss you goodnight.

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

When you go to Hawaii, it's all about "Aloha." It means hello, goodbye and I love you. — Gabriel Iglesias

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love. — Luther Vandross

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks

Goodbye Friend Quotes

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. — Ouida

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

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. — William Shakespeare

Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends. — Sivananda

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

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

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

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. — Edward Young

Good Goodbye Quotes

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

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. — Jennie Bond

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden

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

Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it. — Ogden Nash

Goodbye Farewell Quotes

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. — Diane Arbus

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Goodbyes are not forever Goodbyes aren't final, when You only mean we'll miss you Until we meet again — John Walter Bratton

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

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

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

Never Say Goodbye Quotes

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again. — Ann Rinaldi

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me. — Chris Brown

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all. — Snoop Dogg

There's never a right time to say goodbye. — Chris Brown

I never say goodbye, I say, “au-revoir.” Goodbye is so final. Au-revoir means I will see you again. — Tao Porchon-Lynch

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. — Jane Austen

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. — James M. Barrie

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

Never say goodbye, say farewell. — Unknown

I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.' — Irene Sharaff

Saying Goodbye Love Quotes

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not. — Henry David Thoreau

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you. — Genevieve Gorder

Frost is but slender weeks away, Tonight the sunset glow will stay, Swing to the north and burn up higher And Northern Lights wall earth with fire. Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, And yet the cold blue word is spoken: Say goodbye to the sun. The days of love and leaves are done. — Robert P. T. Coffin

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. — William Shakespeare

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. — William Shakespeare

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again-or perhaps knowing that we won't. — Luanne Rice

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love? — Alexander Pope

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you. — Robert Dodsley

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday. — John Mayer

We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain? — Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Good-bye 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

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered. — Frances Hesselbein

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going. — George Carlin

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward. — John C. Maxwell

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. — Suzanne Collins

I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace. — Maggie Stiefvater

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating. — Thora Hird

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go. — Lauren Oliver

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis

Good Bye Quotes

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

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. — Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale — Catullus

I hid my love when young till I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my life to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face But left her memory in each place; Where'er I saw a wild flower lie I kissed and bade my love good-bye. — John Clare

Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ? — Boris Pasternak

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight. — Ai Yazawa

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. — Gilda Radner

Death's in the good-bye. — Anne Sexton

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? — Fanny Kemble

Last Goodbye Quotes

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth. — J. K. Rowling

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, 'Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.' I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week. — Jurgen Klopp

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it. — Dave Reichert

Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye. — Jeff Buckley

A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?" — Tom Hanks

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby. — Billy Joel

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God. — Ronald Reagan

There is a time and a place for creativity. — William Redington Hewlett

Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye. — Marilyn Bergman

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. — Berkeley Breathed

Good Farewell Quotes

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. — Ernest Hemingway

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

Where is the good in goodbye? — Meredith Willson

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

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! — Robert Pollok

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. — William Cowper

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. — Elizabeth Bowen

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. — William Shenstone

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked. — Alexandre Dumas

Saying Good Bye Quotes

They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker. — Jill Shalvis

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye. — Unknown

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. — Ben Jonson

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello. — Maureen Johnson

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. — Anonymous

Is not absence death to those who love? — Alexander Pope

I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. — John Green

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye. — Russell T Davies

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse. — J. D. Salinger

Farewell Quotes

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. R. Tolkien

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. — J. R. R. Tolkien

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses. - Clark Gable

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

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. — Marie Antoinette

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

When one door closes, another one opens. — Alexander Graham Bell

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More Goodbye Quotes

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye. — Bum Phillips

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. — Gerald Jampolsky

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. — Lao Tzu

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. — Shannon Alder

Any finite life – even the best one you could possibly imagine – is therefore a matter of ceaselessly waving goodbye to possibility. — Oliver Burkeman

Life is a series of hello's and goodbye's. Most we forget, but a few define us. — Lex Fridman

In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side. — John Lahr

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back. — Michael Stuhlbarg

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! — Charlotte Bronte

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia — Jim Noel

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