158 Saying Goodbye Quotes

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Famous Saying Goodbye Quotes

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

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne

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

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me. — Bruce Jenner

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

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

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

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye — Beyonce Knowles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Saying Goodbye Quotes

  • Death is not goodbye. — Tite Kubo
  • If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. — Paulo Coelho
  • Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. — Shel Israel
  • Life is a series of hello's and goodbye's. Most we forget, but a few define us. — Lex Fridman
  • A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. — Helen Rowland
  • I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. — Patrick Marber
  • The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. — Jimi Hendrix
  • See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. — Bill Haley
  • My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye. — Pocahontas
  • 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

Saying Goodbye Image Quotes

Saying 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.

Never Say Goodbye Quotes

A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye. — Anonymous

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

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

Saying 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.

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

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

Saying 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.

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

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

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

Saying Goodbye Love Quotes

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. - Irving Berlin

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin

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

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

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

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

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West

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

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

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

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

Hard To Say Goodbye Quotes

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

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

It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it's hard for me to understand that pain and that process. — Michael Franti

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard. — Angela Ruggiero

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

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't like saying goodbye to people. I find it much easier to forgive people than to say goodbye to them, I always have, in any facet of my life. It's hard sometimes to forgive people, but I find it harder to say goodbye if you love them. — Torquil Campbell

I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out. — Michael Easton

Time To Say 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

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman. — Howard Cosell

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise. — Marcus Aurelius

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. — Jean Paul

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

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

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

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

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

Saying Good Bye Quotes

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

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saying 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

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

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye. — Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

Good Goodbye Quotes

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams

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

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

Where is the good in goodbye? — Meredith Willson

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference. — Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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More Saying Goodbye Quotes

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

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

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

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

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia — Jim Noel

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. — Walter Cronkite

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. — Alice Walker

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