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

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Memories

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• Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer.

  Sophocles

  Shining, Sun

  Sophocles (1939). “The Antigone of Sophocles: an English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald”

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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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• Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.

  Dolly Parton

  Love You, Needs, Cry

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

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Relationship, Pain

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.22

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

  Angela Ruggiero

  Emotional, Long, Done

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

  Jack Kerouac

  Travel, Crazy, Adventure

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

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• I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

  Stephen King

  Alive, Speak, Wanted

  Stephen King (2017). “The Dark Tower Boxed Set”, p.2591, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Farewell, Blue, Way

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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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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Farewell, Love Is, Anxiety

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• Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Dream, Sweet

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• Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn't have missed it.

  Ogden Nash

  Lying, Kids, Past

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kids, Thinking, Expected

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

  Tryon Edwards

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

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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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• Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Farewell, Thee

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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