Goodbye Quotes - Page 20

• They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

  Martin Amis

  Regret, Mean, Done

  Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Song, Fall, Mean

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• They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

  Robin Wasserman

  Best Friend, Mistake, Heart

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• It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Saying Goodbye, Destiny, My Destiny

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Life, Saying Goodbye, Yesterday

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• It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Persons, Hard, Saying Goodbye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I try to say goodbye and I choke
  Try to walk away and I stumble
  Though I try to hide it, it's clear
  My world crumbles when you are not here

  Macy Gray

  Trying, World, Choke

  Song: I Try

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• It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• I will never understand why they cook on TV. I can't smell it. Can't eat it. Can't taste it. The end of the show they hold it up to the camera, 'Well, here it is. You can't have any. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Smell, Cameras

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• Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Opposites, World, Hello

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• I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'

  Jacki Weaver

  Love You, People, Say Anything

  "Exclusive Q&A: 'Animal Kingdom' Mama Grizzly (And Golden Globe Nominee) Jacki Weaver" by Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. January 13, 2011.

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• My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

  Blaize Clement

  Sunset, Heart, Water

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Rope, Cautionary Tales

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.'

  Irene Sharaff

  Saying Goodbye, Never Say Goodbye

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• Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye

  Glenda Millard

  Gone Away, Max, Saying Goodbye

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• The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

  Dar Williams

  Summer, School, Rivers

  Song: The End of the Summer

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• How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.

  Bryan Davis

  True Friend, Angel, Dragons

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• Death is not goodbye.

  Tite Kubo

  Bleach

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• A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.

  Alan Lightman

  Coffee, Passion, Lakes

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• The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Journey, Space

  The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address, delivered 28 January 1986

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• Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

  Luanne Rice

  Impossible, Realizing

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• Goodbyes are overrated.

  Neil Gaiman

  Overrated

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.

  Jenny Downham

  Good Luck, Bird, Should

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Farewell, Touching, Would Be

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.391, Hachette UK

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