Farewell Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Heart, Rivers, Tears

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.140

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• Farewell's a bitter word to say.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Bitter Words, Bitter

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Farewell, woman! I intend
  Henceforth every night to sit
  With my lewd, well-natured friend,
  Drinking to engender wit.

  John Wilmot

  Women, Drinking, Night

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.73, Taylor & Francis

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• Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Twilight, Sadness

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Wisdom, Peace, Freedom

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

  Sam Hamill

  Moon, Simple, Korea

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• 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

  Grief, Parent, Gone

  George Moses Horton (1973). “The Hope of Liberty: Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces”

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Nwo, Acquisition, Cold War

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• Wherever you may go
  Wherever you may have been
  Saying goodbye is fine
  If you say hello again

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, May, Hello

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• It takes a minute to say hello
  Why? I wonder why
  When it's seems to take forever
  When you have to say Goodbye?

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Forever, Hello

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

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Mean, Missing

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• This goodbye will only seem
  Like an eternal pain
  If I fail to merely miss you
  Until we meet again
  As we assuredly will
  I've made my mind up

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Pain, Missing

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• We've shared good (times)
  We've shared good fries
  We've shared good (beers)
  But never goodbyes...
  Till now
  Mind how you go, good buddy

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Beer, Mind

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• It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, College

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• Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

  Anders Zorn

  Goodbye, Mother, Snow

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• Farewell count without a head

  William the Silent

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• There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Said, Consolation, One Word

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.453

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• Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Men, Brain

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.106

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• Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

  John Bunyan

  Journey, Views, Heaven

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• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Goodbye, Children, Wall

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• Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)

  Randy Pausch

  Daughter, Father, Taken

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• 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

  Goodbye, Diversity, Half

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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• And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.

  Donna Tartt

  Wave, Donne, Shore

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.102, Vintage

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• But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Blessed, Long Ago

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.10, Penguin

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• Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

  George MacDonald

  Believe, Evil, Simplicity

  George Macdonald (2016). “Phantastes”, p.249, George Macdonald

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