Parting Quotes - Page 5

• From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

  John Milton

  Spring, Genius, Pale

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.21

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• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Gratitude, Morning

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59

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• Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Difficult Times, Pleasure, Worthwhile

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• You should always be careful of what you say in parting.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Should, Be Careful, Careful

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

  Marge Piercy

  Crazy, Real, Struggle

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.107, Knopf

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• How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Believe, Greatest Treasure, Self

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• Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Clothes, Wit, Meetings

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• I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Two, House Guests, Forget

  Alfred North Whitehead (1954). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”

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• If e'er I win a parting token,
  'Tis something that has lost its power--
  A chain that has been used and broken,
  A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
  Something that makes my pleasure less,
  Something that means--forgetfulness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, Mean, Winning

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• When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Smile, World, Way

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• Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wise, Home, Learning

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• I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace

  Heart, Humanity, Victory

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• Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

  Ben Vereen

  Change, Moving, Sea

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• I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice it would be: ‘Take a deep breath, the world is not ending – and do something with your hair.’ I had the same haircut from when I was a toddler all the way through high school, it was this weird side-parting. I didn’t like change.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, School, Mirrors

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• Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Saying Goodbye, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Great Expectations in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography”, p.568, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Kissing, Echoes

  1593 Gremio, of Petruccio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.3, l.50-2.

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• There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

  Aldous Huxley

  Agony, Bereavement, Suffering

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

  Colley Cibber

  Anger, Hell, Fury

  Colley Cibber (1725). “Love's Last Shift; or, the Fool in fashion. A comedy, etc”, p.49

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• Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
  Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
  Only to meet again more close.

  John Keats

  Flower, Air, Rose

  John Keats (2011). “John Keats”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

  William Cowper

  Goodbye, Farewell, Diversity

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Farewell, Return

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

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• If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Sad, Flower, Sunday

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  Vasily Grossman

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

  Thomas Gray

  Wind, Darkness, Tolls

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 1 (1751)

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