Farewell Friend Quotes:

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

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

topic: Perfect, Stories, Rhyming, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Inspirational, Life, Faith, Nightfall, Lord Of The Ring

There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Goodbye, Spiritual, Farewell Friend, Good Bye

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

- Dr. Seuss

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

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

source: Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

topic: Friendship, Missing You, Goodbye, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Relationship, Goodbye, Distance, Love Is Hard, Back Together

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

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Heart, I Ll Miss You, Last Goodbye

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Love, Romantic, I Miss You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

- Kai Knudsen

topic: Marriage, Missing Someone, Heart, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

- Ben Jonson

topic: I Miss You, Sweet, Missing, I Missed You, Missed You

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 18, 2012

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Saying Hello, Time To Say Goodbye

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

- Edward Young

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

topic: Friends, Goodbye, Farewell, I Ll Miss You, Death Of A Friend

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

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

topic: I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

- Robert Pollok

source: Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Bitter, Farewell Friend, Farewell Love

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

- George Eliot

topic: Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely, Back Together, I Ll Miss You

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

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Best Friend, I Miss You, Missing You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Sports, Losing Friends, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, God Knows, Parting, We Will Miss You

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

- Donald Cargill

topic: Love, Believe, Reading, Farewell Friend, Farewell Love

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

- Pam Brown

topic: Relationship, Hurt, Distance, Strong Long Distance Relationship, Moving Away

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye, Wherever You Are, Inspirational Condolences

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

topic: Broken Heart, Death, Fall, I Missed You, Someone You Miss

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

topic: Powerful, Farewell, Justice, Offended You, Tranquil

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

- Donald E. Westlake

topic: Funny, Jobs, Farewell, Farewell Friend, Farewell Love

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.

- Robert Southey

source: Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

topic: Farewell, Loss, May, Death Of A Friend, Loss Of A Friend

Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

- Donald Cargill

topic: Funny, Farewell, Hands, Farewell Friend, Farewell Love

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

- Henry Fielding

source: "Amelia Volume".

topic: Friendship, Death, Goodbye, Time To Say Goodbye, Farewell Friend

People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.

- Fulton Oursler

topic: Goodbye, Love You, Mean, Farewell Friend, Farewell Love

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

- Trey Parker

topic: Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell, Make You Cry, Time To Say Goodbye

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 good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Friendship, Goodbye, Hate, I Ll Miss You, Snoopy

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

- Garrison Keillor

source: Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.

topic: Love, Goodbye, Farewell, I Ll Miss You, Lake Wobegon

Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Some trails are happy ones, Others are blue. It's the way you ride the trail that counts, Here's a happy one for you.

- Dale Evans

source: "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

topic: Goodbye, Blue, Way, Meeting Again, Moving Away

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

- Rebecca West

topic: Strength, Success, Encouraging, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

- William Cowper

topic: Love, I Miss You, Missing You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

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

source: Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

topic: Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye, I Ll Miss You, Losing Friends

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

- Tryon Edwards

topic: I Miss You, Missing You, Goodbye, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Never Forget, Forget, Forget Me, Tigger, I Ll Miss You

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

source: 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

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Diversity, Slighted, Farewell Friend

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

- Richard Bach

topic: Love, Friendship, I Miss You, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

- Tom Petty

source: Song: You And I Will Meet Again

topic: Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell, Least Expecting, Moving Away

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

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

topic: Life, Change, Healing, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Letting Go, Goodbye, Mean, Time To Say Goodbye, Moving Away

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Goodbye, Hurt, Hurt So Much, I Ll Miss You

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

- Jean Paul

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Men, I Ll Miss You, Time To Say Goodbye