Goodbye Quotes - Page 17

• Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.

  Tavi Gevinson

  School, Emotional, Onward And Upward

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Song, Farewell, Jockeys

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• My wife's the ugliest woman in the world - I'd sooner take her with me on tour, than kiss her goodbye.

  Max Miller

  Kissing, Wife, World

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• If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

  John Mayer

  Giving, Might, Hello

  Song: Wheel, Album: Heavier Things

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• I called the hotel operator and she said, "How can I direct your call?" I said, "Well, you could say 'Action!', and I'll begin to dial. And when I say 'Goodbye', then you can yell 'Cut!'"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Farewell, Fate

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

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• In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.

  Woody Allen

  Girlfriend, War, Taken

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

  David Mitchell

  Summer, Remember, Saying Goodbye

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• I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.

  David Millar

  Kissing, Long, Racing

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• Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you dont.

  Steve McQueen

  Hello, Sometimes, Knows

  "Fictional character: Boon Hogganbeck". "The Reivers", www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

  Richard Bach

  Sometimes, Things To Do, Right Thing

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.

  Hans Kung

  Moving, Time To Move On, Reason

  "Controversial Theologian Hans Kung: 'I Don't Cling to This Life'". Interview with Markus Grill, www.spiegel.de. December 12, 2013.

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• With my employees, if something is wrong and we can figure it out, okay, otherwise goodbye. Your employees are part of your success, so you have to share that, but the guests and the atmosphere have to be happy first.

  Julie King

  Atmosphere, Guests, Firsts

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• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  Nancy Wake

  Hate, War, Men

  "A belated salute for war heroine" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2004.

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• One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

  Michael Palin

  Saying Goodbye, Difficult, Difficult Things

  "Sahara with Michael Palin". Documentary, 2002.

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• She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Farewell, Emotional, Knowing

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.210, Penguin

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• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

  Nhat Hanh

  Moving On, Depression, Letting Go

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.125, Souvenir Press

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• This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude.

  Eddie McGuire

  Football, Attitude, Home

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• I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Philosophy, Surrender

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• He sank into that kiss, and fed from me like a starving man holding off famine. I drank from his soul in preparation for the drought to come. And when he finally pulled away, my throat was thick with unspoken words, my heart heavy with every apology I'd ever denied him. But it was too late for promises. The time had come for goodbye.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Kissing, Apology

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.424, MIRA

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• The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

  Joan Jett

  Friendship, Good Things, Said

  Song: The Only Good Thing You Ever Said Was Goodbye

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• When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

  Edie Brickell

  Sadness, Saying Goodbye, All Alone

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• I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

  Bob Dylan

  Beast, Borderline

  Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

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• I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.

  James Taylor

  Lying, Believe, Love You

  Song: I Was Only Telling A Lie, Album: JT, 1977

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• Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

  Ani DiFranco

  Air, Sky, Smoking

  Song: Fire Door

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