Saying Goodbye Quotes - Page 3

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

  John Green

  Goodbye, Ideas, Might

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

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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

  Goodbye, Baby, Hollywood

  Song: Say Goodbye To Hollywood

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• I used to get quite upset that I'd make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we'd move and go and live somewhere else, and you'd have to say goodbye to that person.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Girl, Goodbye, Moving

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Goodbye, Ideas, Giving

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.93, Penguin

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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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Mean

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• It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Goodbye, Song, Journey

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• There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

  Chris Brown

  Goodbye, Hate, Moving

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• Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

  William Petersen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Night

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• I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

  Yann Martel

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Hurt

  "Life of Pi". www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

  J. D. Salinger

  Goodbye, Hate, School

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• I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.

  John Green

  Goodbye, Believe, Choices

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• I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Goodbye, Hate, People

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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

  Goodbye, Farewell, Long

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• To say goodbye is to die a little.

  Raymond Chandler

  Goodbye, Littles, Chaos

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

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• Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.

  Maggie Osborne

  Goodbye, Jobs, Sleep

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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, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.'

  Dean Martin

  Funny, Goodbye, Pregnancy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, Goodbye, Farewell

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• The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

  Robert Southey (1850). “Southey's Common-place Book”, p.44

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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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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

  William Shakespeare

  Goodbye, Farewell, Heart

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.190

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

  Arthur Golden

  Life, Thinking, Needs

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Farewell, Return

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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