Farewell Friend Quotes

• 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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Spiritual

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Goodbye

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• 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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Romantic, I Miss You

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

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 18, 2012

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Farewell

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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• 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 Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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

  Robert Pollok

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, I Miss You, Missing You

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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  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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friends, Goodbye

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. 14

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• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  Donald Cargill

  Love, Believe, Reading

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• Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

  Pam Brown

  Relationship, Goodbye, Hurt

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• Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Inspirational, Funny, Peace

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• A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Funny, Jobs, Farewell

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

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