Goodbye Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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  If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 18, 2012

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• There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Missing Someone

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Lonely, Farewell

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

  Jack Kerouac

  Travel, Crazy, Adventure

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

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  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

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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  Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

  Richard Bach

  Love, Friendship, I Miss You

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• 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

  Friendship, Hate, Farewell

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• And being alone is the best way to be
  When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
  When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
  When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

  Edie Brickell

  Solitude, Way, All Alone

  Song: Circle Of Friends

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Farewell, Return, Good Bye

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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• Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Letting Go

  Song: Best Thing You Never Had, Album: 4, 2011

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• At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Personal Failure

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• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Memories

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  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

  Life, Change, Farewell

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Memories, Years, Tears

  Song: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, 1986

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Heart, Good Bye

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

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• No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

  Terry Pratchett

  Perfect, World, Made

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.394, Random House

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• 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

  Memories, Farewell, Heart

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• 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

  Friendship, Inspiring, Sweet

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

  William Cowper

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

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• Where is the good in goodbye?

  Meredith Willson

  Farewell

  Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey (1958). “Libretto for Meredith Wilson's the music man: book, music and lyrics”

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• Goodbyes are not forever
  Goodbyes aren't final, when
  You only mean we'll miss you
  Until we meet again

  John Walter Bratton

  Farewell, Mean, Missing

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• It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Messages, Good Bye, Humans

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.211, Dial Press

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