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
A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.
Unknown Author
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
William Shakespeare
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.
Alcibiades
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.
Anna Brownell Jameson
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Garrison Keillor
Being strong sometimes means being able to let go.
Unknown Author
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
Edward Young
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Richard Bach
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ovid
Death’s in the goodbye.
Anne Sexton
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
Every goodbye makes the next hello closer.
Unknown Author
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Farewell! For in that word that fatal word however We promise, hope, believe there breathes despair.
Lord Byron
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
William Shakespeare
Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.
R. M. Grenon
Goodbye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end. It simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.
Unknown Author
Goodbyes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say goodbye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
Elizabeth Bowen
Goodbyes, they often come in waves.
Jarod Kintz
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
Lazarus Long
Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn’t have missed it.
Ogden Nash
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Thomas Meehan
I can tell by your tears that you will remember it all.
Unknown Author
I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.
Christa McAuliffe
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. 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
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Claudia Gandhi
If you’re brave to say ‘Goodbye’, life will reward you with a ‘Hello’.
Paulo Coelho
I’m torn between what was and what could be.
Unknown Author
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben Jonson
It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.
Angela Ruggiero
It is the end of something simple and the beginning of everything else.
Unknown Author
It’s all said and done, it’s real, and it’s been fun.
Unknown Author
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
Yann Martel
It’s not the goodbyes that hurt, but the flashbacks that follow.
Unknown Author
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end is right, I hope you had the time of your life.
Unknown Author
It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Goodbye’.
Kurt Vonnegut
I’ve got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are ‘hello,’ ‘goodbye,’ and I’m pregnant.
Dean Martin
Life wouldn’t be the same without you and all the memories you have given me.
Unknown Author
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.
Kay Knudsen
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
John Dryden
Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean Paul Richter
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
Irish Blessing
May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.
Irish Toast
Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.
Unknown Author
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 Richter
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
J. M. Barrie
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
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
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to car. Sometimes goodbye is just a painful way to say ‘I love you.’
Unknown Author
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
George Eliot
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
Emily Dickinson
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.
Unknown Author
Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.
A. A. Milne
Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Trey Parker
Saying goodbye isn’t the hard part, it’s what we leave behind that’s tough.
Unknown Author
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Flavia Weedn
Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there.
Unknown Author
Sometimes you just have to hold your head high, try not to cry, and say goodbye.
Unknown Author
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!
Robert Pollok
That money talks I’ll not deny, I heard it once, it said ‘Goodbye’.
Richard Armour
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
Alan Alda
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.
Jennie Bond
The good side of goodbye is: I can start a new beginning and create a new better ending.
Unknown Author
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?
Nicholas Rowe
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb. Time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Unknown Author
The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never explained.
Unknown Author
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
Nicholas Sparks
The return makes one love the farewell.
Alfred De Musset
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix
The two hardest things to say in life are ‘Hello’ for the first time and ‘Goodbye’ for the last.
Unknown Author
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
There are no goodbyes, where ever we are, you’ll always be in my heart.
Unknown Author
There is no material that is harder than saying goodbye.
Unknown Author
There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.
Geoffrey Howe
There’s a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
Cecil Day-Lewis
There’s no love without tears, there’s no happiness without sacrifice, and there’s no forever without goodbye.
Marquesia White
This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.
Hussein Nishah
To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.
George Granville
True goodbyes are the ones never said or explained.
Unknown Author
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.
Jean Dubuffet
Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.
Unknown Author
We laughed until we had to cry; we loved right down to our last goodbye; we were the best.
St. Elmo’s Fire
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
When someone leaves you, let them go, and know that it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. It just means that their part in the story of your life is over. Your story goes on.
Unknown Author
Where is the ‘good’ in goodbye?
Unknown Author
Why are the words goodbye, I’m sorry and I love you, so easily pronounced, but so hard to say?
Unknown Author
Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
Charles M. Schulz
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
Unknown Author
You get used to someone – start to like them, even – and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
Rachel Ward
You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say goodbye!
Unknown Author
You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind.
Unknown Author
