Saying Goodbye Quotes - Page 10

• Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Forever, Live Forever

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Farewell, Years, Two

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.691, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

  Jane Austen

  Desire, Lasts, Civility

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.151, BookBaby

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• Please, please. Don't cry like that. I'm going to go mad. I don't want to see you again. I need to see you again... I'm sick of it. Because as soon as we have to say goodbye... I want to die. (Ritsuka)

  Yun Kouga

  Goodbye, Sick, Mad

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• You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Letting Go, Goodbye

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Believe, Love You

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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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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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Ocean, Destiny

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

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• Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.

  Susan Fletcher

  Goodbye, Sometimes

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• This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Goodbye, Firsts, Strange

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

  Emma Donoghue

  Goodbye, Doors, Looks

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.225, Pan Macmillan

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• This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

  Juliet Marillier

  Goodbye, Hands, Long

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you

  Amy Winehouse

  Goodbye, Love You, Kissing

  Song: Take The Box, Album: Frank, 2003

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• But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Bail, World

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.45, Penguin

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• Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Farewell, Pride, Rivers

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• true love never says goodbye

  Lauren Kate

  Goodbye, Never Say Goodbye

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Fallen in Love”, Random House

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• I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

  Stephen King

  Goodbye, Alive, Speak

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2591, Simon and Schuster

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• There was also a rumor that later in the day, she walked fully clothed into the Amper River and said something very strange. Something about a kiss. Something about a Saumensch. How many times did she have to say goodbye?

  Markus Zusak

  Goodbye, Kissing, Rivers

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.404, Random House

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• The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.

  Nicole Krauss

  Goodbye, Forever, Asking

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.226, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Son, Dark

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Grief, Imagination

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.31, Penguin

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• Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Farewell, Past

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• I love you too much to say goodbye.

  Lauren Kate

  Goodbye, Love You, Too Much

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1245, Delacorte Press

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• Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Goodbye, Moon, Technology

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