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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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  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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• You're searching...
  For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
  Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
  There are only middles.

  Robert Frost

  Farewell, Mean, Beginning Middle And End

  Robert Frost (2010). “The Road Not Taken, Birches, and Other Poems”, p.23, Coyote Canyon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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