How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
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
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. — Frank Sinatra
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting. — Sergei Yesenin
you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. P.S. i will always love you — Cecelia Ahern
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
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies — Jack Kerouac
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
The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend — Edwin McCain
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
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. — Carrie Underwood
Hard To Say Goodbye Quotes
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. — Paulo Coelho
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
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
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.
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
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
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
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
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
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks
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
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
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. — Jennie Bond
Saying Goodbye Quotes
A memory lasts forever. Never does it die. True friends stay together. And never say goodbye. — Anonymous
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
My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye. — Pocahontas
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin
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
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
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. — Cassandra Clare
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
Saying Goodbye Love Quotes
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
Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love. — Luther Vandross
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
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
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
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
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
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. — 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
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
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
I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.' — Irene Sharaff
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
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
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
Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye. — Marilyn Bergman
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
Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye. — Waylon Jennings
Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. — Shel Israel
There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love. — Suzanne Collins
Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it. — Ogden Nash
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
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. — Jean Paul
Good Goodbye Quotes
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. — Tennessee Williams
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saying Farewell Quotes
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
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
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
Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." — Gene Perret
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
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
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
As fate would have it, Jay's status appears
To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye
When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. — Jay-Z
This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved. — Madeleine L'Engle
To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - Farewell — R. M. Ballantyne
I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on. — Hans Kung
It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them. — Lilith Saintcrow
Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time. — Vin Scully
God willing I will be back next year. Over the years I have been blessed to have so many friends including those that sit in the stands and listen as well as those at home, who listen and watch. It is just too hard to say goodbye to all these friends. Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time. — Vin Scully
There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could. — Anjelica Huston
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye. — Frederick Buechner
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. — Nicholas Sparks
There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch. How many times did she have to say goodbye? — Markus Zusak
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye. — China Mieville
And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils. — Franz Kafka
There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you. — Edith Wharton
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