Farewell Quotes - Page 14

• Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

  Erica Jong

  Goodbye, Over You, Driving

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• I was in Nauvoo on the 26th of May, 1846, for the last time, and left the city of the Saints feeling that most likely I was taking a final farewell of Nauvoo for this life. I looked upon the temple and city as they receded from view and asked the Lord to remember the sacrifices of His Saints.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Sacrifice, Views, Cities

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• Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Tears, Fans

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• I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells.

  Gannicus

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• A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

  Dan Stevens

  Positivity, Boots, Elements

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

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• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Girl, Goodbye, Moving

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• You're searching...
  For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
  Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
  There are only middles.

  Robert Frost

  Goodbye, Mean, Beginning Middle And End

  Robert Frost (2010). “The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems”, p.23, Coyote Canyon Press

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• He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

  Joseph Heller

  Retirement, Funny Life, Forever

  Catch-22 ch. 3 (1961)

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• I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

  David Friedman

  Christmas, Goodbye, Kings

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• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Way, Bye Friends

  Roy Rogers, Dale Evans Rogers (1994). “Happy Trails: Our Life Story”

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• Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Differences

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Responsibility, Government

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

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• When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

  C. S. Lewis

  Adventure, Men, Honor

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• It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

  Naomi Watts

  Men, Clothes, Nerves

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• Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strong, Stars, Lying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.888, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Journey, Ends

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Platforms, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.52, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Distance, Wrinkles

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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• This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Goodbye, Sky, Different

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.111, Grove Press

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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Party

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can't-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be - like with Superman and Lois Lane. There's the first kiss - one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there's the kiss of possession - which was how Ren kissed me now.

  Colleen Houck

  Sexy, War, Kissing

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• Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

  Peter S. Beagle

  Doors, World, Way

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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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• I've been writing verses
  For 60 years...phew!
  And d'yer know why I did it?
  T'was especially for you

  John Walter Bratton

  Writing, Wedding Anniversary, Years

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