Saying Farewell Quotes:

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.

- Robert Dodsley

source: Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

topic: Heart, Kissing, Tears, Kissing Him, Kissing You

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Saying Farewell, Remember Me

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

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

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

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

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 return makes one love the farewell.

- Alfred de Musset

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

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

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

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

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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