Goodbye Quotes - Page 2

• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Heart, Good Bye

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Farewell, Going Away

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

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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, Distance

  "Amelia Volume".

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friends, Farewell

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

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Hurt

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 1996.

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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  Ouida

  Friendship, Farewell, Would Be

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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, Hate, Farewell

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• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

  William Cowper

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

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• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Comfort, Elements

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.687

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• Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Self, Absence

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.245

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• Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.

  Yann Martel

  Dream, Heart, Missing

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where is the good in goodbye?

  Meredith Willson

  Farewell

  Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey (1958). “Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics”

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• When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
  When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
  We can laugh about how time really flies,
  We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

  Joshua Kadison

  Beautiful, Farewell, Eye

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• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Summer, Missing Someone

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

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• It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Messages, Good Bye, Humans

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.211, Dial Press

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• No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

  Terry Pratchett

  Perfect, World, Made

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.394, Random House

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• Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

  William Petersen

  Farewell, Night, Impact

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• I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.

  Greg Norman

  Farewell, Mean, Golf

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

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• we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Cry, Said, Laughed

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• The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Farewell, Eye, Bad Ass

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• Wherever you may go
  Wherever you may have been
  Saying goodbye is fine
  If you say hello again

  John Walter Bratton

  Farewell, May, Hello

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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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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

  Dale Evans

  Farewell, Memorial, Moving Away

  "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

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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

  Farewell, Perfect, Way

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

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• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Farewell, Long, Territory

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