Saying Goodbye Is Hard Quotes:

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

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.

- Angela Ruggiero

topic: Goodbye, Emotional, Long, Good Bye, Good Goodbye

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

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Good Goodbye, Sad Breaking Heart

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

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

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

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Friendship, Positive, Tigger, Bff

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Happiness, Appreciation, Retirement, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

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

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

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

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

- Alexander Pope

topic: Summer, Goodbye, Spring, Saying Good Bye, Absence Love

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

- Genevieve Gorder

topic: Goodbye, Done, Intense, Northerners, Goodbye Love

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

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

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

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

- William Shakespeare

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

- Charles Dickens

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

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

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Goodbye, Ideas, Giving, Time To Say Goodbye, Illness And Death

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

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Love, Inspirational, I Miss You, I Missed You, Promise Me

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Trying, Physical Fitness, Fluff

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

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on...

- Irving Berlin

source: Title of song (1927)

topic: Song, Prayer, Memorial, Inspirational Death, Memorial Stone