Goodbye Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  Denis Diderot

  Birthday, Farewell, Excellence

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Done, Intense, Break

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• The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Done, Break, Hardest

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• Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

  Janet Leigh

  Promise, Matter, Tomorrow

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• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  Richard O'Brien

  Farewell, Adore, Interest

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

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• I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.'

  Dean Martin

  Funny, Pregnancy, Kids

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

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• That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

  Richard Armour

  Money, Good Bye, Deny

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• If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?

  Allen Collins

  Farewell, Tomorrow, Remember

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• When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Farewell, Justice

  Baltimore Evening Sun, June 12, 1922.

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• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Girl, Moving, Farewell

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Light, Careers

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Farewell, Return, Good Bye

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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• A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Ideas, Giving, Long

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.93, Penguin

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• Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Letting Go

  Song: Best Thing You Never Had, Album: 4, 2011

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• The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love You, Love Is, Stories

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting at Zero”, p.251, Heyne Verlag

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• At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Personal Failure

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• Goodbyes are not forever
  Goodbyes aren't final, when
  You only mean we'll miss you
  Until we meet again

  John Walter Bratton

  Farewell, Mean, Missing

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• The woman who died night after night
  and her dying was a long goodbye,
  a train that never left.

  Octavio Paz

  Night, Long, Dying

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• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  Dave Reichert

  War, Believe, Farewell

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• It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Song, Journey, Feet

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• When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

  Mary Karr

  Fun, Giving Up, Sober Up

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• Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

  John Green

  Ideas, Might, Problem

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.124, Penguin

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• A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dream, Farewell, Ties

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• When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

  George Gobel

  Party, Saying Goodbye, Hello

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