Good Farewell Quotes

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

Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

Song: You And I Will Meet Again

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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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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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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

Helen Rowland

Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Gilda Radner

Life, Change, Goodbye

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

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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Jean Paul

Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

Love, Relationship, Smile

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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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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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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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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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, Farewell, Diversity

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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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Garrison Keillor

Love, Goodbye, Farewell

Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.

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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Death, Goodbye, Farewell

Amelia bk. 3, ch. 4 (1751)

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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

Goodbye, Farewell, Love Is

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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Rebecca West

Strength, Success, Encouraging

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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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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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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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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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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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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

Friendship, Death, Goodbye

"Amelia Volume".

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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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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

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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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