Adieu Quotes

• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Farewell, Memorial

  "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

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• was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Love, Dream, Sleep

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• 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

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Romantic, Goodnight, Good Night

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• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  'Good-bye' (1847)

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• If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.

  Jean Rhys

  Goodbye, Song, Fate

  Jean Rhys (1966). “Wide Sargasso Sea”

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• Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

  John Milton

  Farewell, Paradise Lost Book 9, Paradise Lost Book 2

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

  William Shakespeare

  Remember, Remember Me

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.65

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• Farewell, fair cruelty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Funny, Farewell

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.78

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Farewell, Return

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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• Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

  John Keats

  Hands, Joy, Bidding

  "Ode on Melancholy" l. 21 (1820)

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• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Tears, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 186

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• The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Horse, Men, Thinking

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Farewell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• 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

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Tomorrow

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• Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

  Anne Bronte

  Prayer, Heart, Past

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.212, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

  Laurence Sterne

  Kissing, Clouds, Light

  Laurence Sterne (1830). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: In One Volume, with a Life of the Author”, p.257

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• Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?

  John Keats

  Dream, Sleep, Past

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 8

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• Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again;
  Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Men, Self, Years

  "The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî". Poem by Richard Francis Burton, 1870.

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• Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!

  Theodora

  World, Rings

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• I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.

  Marie Antoinette

  Brother, Children, Heart

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• Once (says an Author; where I need not say)
  Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way;
  Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong;
  While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along
  Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.
  Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,
  Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right
  Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.
  The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well,
  "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell.
  We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you:
  'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

  Pope Alexander VI

  Winning, Sight, Hands

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• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Goodbye, Farewell

  Baltimore Evening Sun, June 12, 1922.

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• Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

  Loretta Chase

  Laughing, Trying, Cows

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