Saying Goodbye Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

  Ogden Nash

  Goodbye, Lying, Kids

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• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

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• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  'Good-bye' (1847)

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• There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles

  Joshua Kadison

  Lines, Faces, Bye Friends

  Song: Beautiful in My Eyes, 1993

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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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• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

  Alcibiades

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• 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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• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Thinking, Should Have

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

  Arthur Golden

  Life, Thinking, Needs

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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

  Goodbye, Done, Intense

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Tomorrow

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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Farewell, Memorial

  "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

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• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

  Rebecca West

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

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  Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Farewell

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• The return makes one love the farewell.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Inspirational, Goodbye

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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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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, I Miss You, Missing You

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Hurt

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

  Tryon Edwards

  I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye

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