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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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  Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Farewell, Going Away

  Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.

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• Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

  James M. Barrie

  Letting Go, Farewell, Mean

  "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". Book by James M. Barrie, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1911.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Comfort, Elements

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.687

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• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friends, Farewell

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. 14

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• Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

  Trey Parker

  Friendship, Farewell, Mean

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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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• 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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• 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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