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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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  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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• 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

  Farewell, Perfect, Way

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

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

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Meaningful, Memories

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Stars

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.611, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Best Friend, I Miss You, Missing You

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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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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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

  Ouida

  Friendship, Farewell, Would Be

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• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Farewell, Long, Territory

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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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