Saying Farewell Quotes

• 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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

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• It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

  Ernie Harwell

  Goodbye, Attitude, Adventure

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Blue

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• The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Goodbye, Farewell, Eye

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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, Goodbye, Hurt

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

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• Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

  Dale Evans

  Goodbye, Farewell, Memorial

  "Happy Trails" (song) (1950)

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• That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

  Robert Pollok

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Pollok (1855). “The Course of Time: A Poem ...”, p.219

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  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, Goodbye

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

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

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

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• It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

  Henry Fielding

  Death, Goodbye, Farewell

  Amelia bk. 3, ch. 4 (1751)

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• In the hope to meet
  Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.706

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Farewell

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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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, Goodbye

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

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  You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

  Song: You And I Will Meet Again

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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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• 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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

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

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• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Goodbye, Thinking Of You

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• Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

  Henry Fielding

  Friendship, Death, Goodbye

  "Amelia Volume".

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• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

  John Dryden

  I Miss You, Missing You, Long Distance Relationship

  John Dryden (1762). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: In Six Volumes”, p.196

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