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• Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

  Anders Zorn

  Goodbye, Mother, Snow

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• The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten.

  Lee Bo-na

  Morning, Drama, Sunshine

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• The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'

  Orlando Gibbons

  Wise, Eye, Swans

  1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

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• I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

  Socrates

  Passion, Ignorance, Reflection

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• Wherever you may go
  Wherever you may have been
  Saying goodbye is fine
  If you say hello again

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, May, Hello

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• Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

  Robert Burns

  Heart, Rivers, Tears

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.140

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• I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

  Patsy Cline

  Goodbye, Church, Records

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• There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Said, Consolation, One Word

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.453

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• An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Men, Embrace

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Goodbye, Children, Wall

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• Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there.
  Sometimes you won't let go of love. More times love won't let go of you.
  That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

  Robert Pollok

  Love, Letting Go, Bitter Words

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• There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Goodbye, Men, Good Bye

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it.
  Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

  Richard Ford

  Dream, Retirement, Thinking

  1992 'An Urge for Going', in Harper's, Feb.

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• Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Weight, Weary

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Hour Glass”, p.17, Yokai Publishing

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• My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell."

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mom, Mother, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Sky, Sea

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses, annunciations, and so on. Epistles can be apologetic, commendatory, friendship-oriented, exhortational, diatribes.

  Craig Blomberg

  Miracle, Apologetic, Apocalypse

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sympathy, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

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• Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who speak Italian or Spanish to each other. It's been helpful to me to study and try to emulate that in that way.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Writing, Character, Italian

  Source: therumpus.net

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• He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Gone, Creditors

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Powerful, Justice, Promise

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• Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

  James Gates Percival

  Night, Shade, Lasts

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• Farewell unhappy, hopeless, blasphemous Rome! The Wrath of God has come upon you, as you deserve. We cared for Babylon, and she is not healed; let us then leave her, that she may become the habitation of dragons, spectres, and witches.

  Martin Luther

  Wrath, Dragons, Rome

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• The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

  Marianne Williamson

  Party, Essence, Political

  "This is Los Angeles: We Don’t Do the Same Old, Same Old Here" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.

  Nikki Sixx

  Mean, Kind, Music Industry

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