Bye quotes
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But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
-- A. A. Milne -
We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.
-- Ai Yazawa -
The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.
-- Alyson Noel -
I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
-- Ann Aguirre -
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I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.
-- Bas Rutten -
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)
-- Bill Buford -
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
-- Billy Joel -
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Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
-- Boris Pasternak -
Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
-- Catullus -
Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.
-- Cecil Castellucci -
Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are.
-- Charles Rumney Samson -
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You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
-- Charlotte Rae -
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.
-- Darynda Jones -
It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'
-- Denis Leary -
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When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I said, 'Hey', she said, 'Hi.' I said, 'Us', she said, 'Try,' 'And if you're thinkin strictly boots, then I'll say baby, bye bye.'
-- Dres -
There are some things you never say good-bye to
-- Elizabeth Berg -
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
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Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'
-- Emilia Clarke -
The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now I'm sorrowful,The day is long past.Alas and woe, oh.
-- Enya -
Good-bye, Graystripe. I love you. Take care of our kits.
-- Erin Hunter -
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Most of us will be remembered, in work and in life, for just a few words or deeds that made a difference to others. The way we choose to say good-bye is likely to be one of the ways we are remembered.
-- Frances Hesselbein -
She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.
-- Gayle Forman -
The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10
-- Gayle Forman -
Good-bye is always hello to something else. Good-bye/hello, good-bye/hello, like the sound of a rocking chair.
-- George Ella Lyon -
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One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.
-- George Santayana -
Bye, bye! I'm from Colombia! I'm Sofia Vergara!
-- Giuliana Rancic -
Came to . . . see you.†“But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.†“Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.†Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—
-- Isaac Marion -
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.
-- Jackson Browne -
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Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."
-- James M. Barrie -
Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich
-- Janet Evanovich -
Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.
-- Jenny Downham -
She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.
-- Jerry Lee Lewis -
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They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.
-- Jill Shalvis -
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
-- Jim Gaffigan -
The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk
-- John Arlott -
Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.
-- John Heywood -
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Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.
-- John Krasinski -
And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?
-- John Ruskin -
A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.
-- Julie Klam -
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
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There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.
-- Lauren Oliver -
You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
-- Lisa Unger -
Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
-- Lisa Unger -
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I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish. I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
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He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.
-- Matthew J. Kirby -
It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.
-- Maureen Johnson -
All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
-- Mitch Albom -
I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said ...
-- Nellie L. McClung -
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Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree. It is indeed "good-bye to summer" when the bluebirds withdraw their touch of brightness from the dreary November landscape at the north to whirl through the southern woods and feed on the waxy berries of the mistletoe.
-- Neltje Blanchan -
Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
-- Ovid -
Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"?
-- Patton Oswalt -
Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Good-bye, and may you find a better life, find comfort again and your breathless smile, and when your beloved face lights up once more at the Western sunrise, be sure what I felt for you was not in vain. Good-bye and have faith, my Tatiana.
-- Paullina Simons -
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Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.
-- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -
Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.
-- Rachel Caine -
I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.
-- Richard von Krafft-Ebing -
You can even get used to having a hole in your life where someone used to live. A hole where you thought they'd live for always, except that one day they just step sideways, without looking back or saying good-bye, and vanish forever.
-- Sally Nicholls -
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Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.
-- Sara Evans -
The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.
-- Sara Zarr -
And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.
-- Sara Zarr -
I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood
-- Scott Westerfeld -
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I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley
-- Shannon Hale -
Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.
-- Shel Israel -
in thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality ...
-- Shirley Hazzard -
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?
-- Steven Levenkron -
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My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.
-- Stevie Smith -
It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.
-- Sylvia Plath -
When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'
-- Thierry Henry -
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Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.
-- Thomas Harris -
Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.
-- Thora Hird -
We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.
-- Tony Kushner -
Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
-- Waylon Jennings -
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Wave bye-bye to your cash cow, 'cause it's leaving the pasture.
-- Jimmy McGill -
Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye.
-- Mark Deklin -
I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
-- Romain Gary -
Thank heavens when the first single Bye Bye came off this album work started to pick up, then I'm Alright has taken us across the world. Radio has been very good, it has chosen to be kind to us.
-- Jo Dee Messina -
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There's nothing in the street Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye And the parting on the left Is now the parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight.
-- Julien Temple
