Goodbye Quotes - Page 4

• Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
  My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
  And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Missing You, Missing Someone, Brother

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 7

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• Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.

  Mary McCormack

  Opportunity, People, Starting Over

  "In Plain Sight Mary Mccormack & Fred Weller Interview". Interview with Lena Lamoray, lenalamoray.com. April 28, 2011.

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• There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

  Geoffrey Howe

  Past, Generations, Good Bye

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• I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

  Ann M. Martin

  Saying Goodbye, Forever, Wonder

  Ann M Martin (2014). “Sunny: Diary Three”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

  John Green

  Ideas, Might, Problem

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.124, Penguin

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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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• I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

  David Friedman

  Christmas, Kings, Farewell

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• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Business, Farewell

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.

  Anders Zorn

  Mother, Farewell, Snow

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• Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Tomorrow, Oldies

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• Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Farewell, Mean, Brooklyn

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• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Children, Wall, War

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• I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

  Patsy Cline

  Farewell, Church, Records

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• Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

  Erica Jong

  Farewell, Over You, Driving

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• The return makes one love the farewell.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Inspirational, Farewell

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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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• To say goodbye is to die a little.

  Raymond Chandler

  Littles, Chaos, Dies

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.336, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• It takes a minute to say hello
  Why? I wonder why
  When it's seems to take forever
  When you have to say Goodbye?

  John Walter Bratton

  Farewell, Forever, Hello

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• Death's in the good-bye.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Farewell, Reality

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• So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

  Billy Joel

  Baby, Hollywood, Lasts

  Song: Say Goodbye To Hollywood

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• This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Firsts, Strange, First Time

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.7, Macmillan

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• And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?

  Jean Racine

  Time, Forever, Sound

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• Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Farewell, Men

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• The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

  Alan Alda

  Farewell, Heart, Doors

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• Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Hurt, Loneliness

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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