Goodbye Farewell Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

- Ernie Harwell

source: Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

topic: Goodbye, Attitude, Adventure, Saying Hello, Time To Say Goodbye

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Eye, Farewell Love, Good Bye

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

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

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

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

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Friendship, Relationship, Pain, Meeting Again, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

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

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Goodbye, Believe, Love You, Marius, Just Kiss Me

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

- H. L. Mencken

source: Baltimore Evening Sun, June 12, 1922.

topic: Life, Goodbye, Farewell, Sheriffs, Adieu

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: 'Good-bye' (1847)

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Death, Adieu, Going Home

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

- Fanny Kemble

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

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.687

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Comfort, Farewell Love, Saying Good Bye

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

- Alcibiades

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Delight, Absence, I Ll Miss You, I Missed You

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Ice, Gentleman, Pants, Ladies And Gentlemen, Goodbye Farewell

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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Heart, Adieu, Good Bye

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

When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles, When the time comes to embrace for one long last while, We can laugh about how time really flies, We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

- Joshua Kadison

source: Song: Beautiful in My Eyes, 1993

topic: Beautiful, Goodbye, Farewell, Love Never Dies, Goodbye Farewell

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

- Richard Simmons

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

topic: Funny, Farewell, One Day, Farewell Love, Goodbye Farewell

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.

- Nicholas Sparks

source: FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Aug 13, 2011

topic: Love, Thank You, Memories, Message In A Bottle, Letter In A Bottle

Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

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