Good Goodbye Quotes

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.

Dale Evans

Goodbye, Farewell, Blue

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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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Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Charles M. Schulz

Friendship, Goodbye, Hate

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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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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams

Love, Inspirational, Life

Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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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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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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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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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

James M. Barrie

Letting Go, Goodbye, Farewell

"Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". Book by James M. Barrie, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1911.

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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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True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

Barbara Johnson

True Love, Letting Go, Goodbye

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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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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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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

Dale Evans

Goodbye, Farewell, Memorial

"Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

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

Dale Evans

Goodbye, Farewell, Way

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

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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

Angela Ruggiero

Goodbye, Emotional, Long

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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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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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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Goodbye, Art, Business

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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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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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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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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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

Elizabeth Bowen

Inspirational, Goodbye, Hurt

ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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