Farewell Quotes - Page 9

• Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.

  Milan Kundera

  Goodbye, Thinking, Fake

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• and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

  Paul Auster

  Lasts, Remember, Famous Last Words

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• Farewell count without a head

  William the Silent

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• Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

  Jessamyn West

  Grieving, Long, Sorrow

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• Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

  Kangin

  Reality, Medicine, Reason

  Source: sjworld.net

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• And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Pride, Knowing, Blue

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• Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

  Lord Byron

  Good Night, Country, Sea

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

  Lord Byron

  Faults, Hated, Mines

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Vain, Feels

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Fate

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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• I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Summer, Morning, Taken

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• The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

  Kathleen Raine

  Lying, Lakes, Air

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.20, SteinerBooks

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• Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

  Robert Reed

  Book, Reading, Adults

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• 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

  Goodbye, Diversity, Half

  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

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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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• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  Barry Hughart

  Love, Beautiful, Daughter

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• If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Space, Survival

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.

  Jon Stewart

  Goodbye, Disappointment, Justice

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• What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

  Yann Martel

  Life Of Pi Book, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This is who I am
  Escapist
  Paradise Seeker
  Farewell, time to fly
  Out of sight
  Out of time
  Away from all lies

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Lying, Sight, Who I Am

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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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