Good Farewell Quotes:

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

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

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

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

- Helen Rowland

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious, I Ll Miss You, We Ll Miss You

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 part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

- Jean Paul

topic: Inspirational, Life, Relationship, Loving Words, Farewell Love

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

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

topic: Love, Relationship, Smile, I Ll Miss You, Make You Cry

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

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

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

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

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

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

- Henry Fielding

source: Amelia bk. 3, ch. 4 (1751)

topic: Death, Dying, Said, Death Of A Friend, Saying Good Bye

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

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Love Is, I Ll Miss You, We Ll Miss You

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

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

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

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

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

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

- William Shenstone

source: William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Return, Adieu, Saying Good Bye

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

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

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

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

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

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

topic: Goodbye, Hurt, Good Bye, I Ll Miss You, We Ll Miss You

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

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

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

- William Shakespeare

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

The return makes one love the farewell.

- Alfred de Musset

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Return, I Ll Miss You, We Ll Miss You

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

- John Dryden

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

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Art, Writing, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends, Inspirational New Beginning

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

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

- Walt Disney

topic: Goodbye, Memories, Farewell, Saying Good Bye, Good Bye