Parting Quotes - Page 2

• A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Eagles, Wings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.108, Library of Alexandria

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Death, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Goodbye, Farewell

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Two, Broken

  'When we two parted' (1816)

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• I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Movie, I Miss You

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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• I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

  Neil Gaiman

  Relationship, Break Up, Thinking

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• Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

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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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• In every parting there is an image of death.

  George Eliot

  Literature

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Amos Barton' ch. 10

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• Parting is such sweet sorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Sad Love, Sweet, Sorrow

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

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• They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Suffering, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.16, Wildside Press LLC

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• merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

  P. C. Cast

  Goodbye, Saying Hello, Wiccan

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2009). “Tempted: A House of Night Novel”, p.304, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?

  Edward George, Baron George

  Dream, Soul, Path

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• Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

  John Suckling

  Sorrow, Weaving, Spinning

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• Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

  Pierre-Jean de Beranger

  Romantic, Goodnight, Good Night

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• Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

  Edward George, Baron George

  Pain, Sadness, Views

  "What Will He Do with It?". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1857.

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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

  Goodbye, Dream, Farewell

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• There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.

  Thomas Otway

  Sweet, Pain, Eye

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• True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 (1725 - 1756)

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• Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Farewell, Forever

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 1, l. 118

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• The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Wish, He Man

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• There is a future for the auto parts industry, but it needs a consolidation and a rationalization of geography in that most suppliers have facilities in the U.S., although most of their customers are overseas.

  Wilbur Ross

  Needs, Geography, Consolidation

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• It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Love, Being Alone, Bye

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friends, Goodbye

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

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