48 Quotes About Goodbye

It’s goodbye time. You’ve grown up, grown old, grown large, grown wise. And now it’s time for this goodbye to end. These farewell quotes are perfect for when you need a little encouragement to let go gracefully Read more

The best way to say goodbye is to make your departure a beautiful thing.

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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. Nicholas Sparks
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--" And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you. Victor Hugo
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I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. Yann Martel
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I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday... John Mayer
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live...
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. John Green
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Relationships are like walls painted off-white and every time you’ll hurt me, it will be like resting dirty shoes on them, like bashing holes in the walls, one after the other. And then there will come a day, where the walls will be filled with so many holes, that there wouldn’t be any place left for you to place the tiniest kiss. Only then will I walk away for good. Malak El Halabi
From all my dreams where you felt everlastingto all my...
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From all my dreams where you felt everlastingto all my clothes your words used to wear, to the old end, to the new beginning, you have lost me everywhere. Khadija Rupa
Do not leave without saying good bye.
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Do not leave without saying good bye. Lailah Gifty Akita
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No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm." How often already you've had to be told, Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold. Dread fifty above more than fifty below." I have to be gone for a season or so. Robert Frost
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My mouth could say goodbye, but not with my heart Restu Ilahi
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I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going. Dominic Riccitello
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Goodbye, " she told him, running her hand across his broad back one last time. "I love you. And I'll never, ever stop missing you. Kate Lattey
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Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know. A. Lynn
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Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. Alice Walker
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Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. William Shakespeare
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I said it grieved me to part from anything that mattered to me, yet I welcomed the grief because it meant I had felt deeply and needed to express it. 'I even had trouble leaving the Parthenon, ' I told him ... 'because it was so beautiful and I knew I'd never see it again. Jeanne Safer
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And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new stories. Crestless Wave
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There comes a day in life, when you have said all that you ever wanted to say to someone. But that someone is still waiting. Waiting for words to come out. And that’s when you know there is nothing much left. It is time to say goodbye. Anushka Bhartiya
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I have to go home, Masi.You are my home, bella. I am lost without you. He couldn’t speak. There were no words to recoil the loss consuming him. Massimo brought his hands up to her face. Kissing her one last time. He had to for his sanity. And he did with great passion, knowing he’d hurt her face when she kissed him back. But she did. He heard the cry in her throat as their tongues danced. Warm tears touched his palms as they continued to kiss. His fingertips were wet with sadness. He kept on kissing her. Unable to stop, he needed ten more seconds. Ti amo, I love you. Please don’t leave. I’ve waited my whole life for you. When he pulled his face back, she cried, and he realized he did also. Avery Aster
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And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Chris Weitz
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There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered. Vasily Grossman
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I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye Maggie Stiefvater
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There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye. Jeff Thomas
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Thank you, " he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty and the kisses. Hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually. "You were amazing. Nora Sakavic
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So you're gone and i'm haunted And i bet you are just fine Did i make it that easy to walk Right in and out of my life A Fine Frenzy
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Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. Ransom Riggs
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What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded: It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome–said all at once. Lang Leav
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It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again. Charlotte Eriksson
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Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye. Glenda Millard
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. Yann Martel
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I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name Sarah Dessen
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Some people come into your life at the right time for the most intense reasons and then some leave your life at the perfect time for the most saddest of reasons, time decides who you meet & you decide who stays. Nikki Rowe
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Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place. Jamie Mcguire
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Before you leave me again, tell me, so I can let you know if I’m ready to watch you go... Donna M. Zadunajsky
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Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye Unknown
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Letting go is one of the most difficult experiences to deal with whether it's right or wrong. So make the most of every moment you've been gifted with. To whoever you initiate contact with and wherever, try to leave a positive impression. To whoever you have the power to make smile, exploit that power as often and best as you can, because when every other material thing fades, it's those memories that keep us alive. Ufuoma Apoki
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Faith, " said Jem. "That you were better than you thought you were. Forgiveness, that you need not always punish yourself. I always loved you, Will. Whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I connot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done with beating. Cassandra Clare
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Here is to the nights we felt alive, here is to the tears you knew youd cry, here is to good bye, tomorrow is going to come to soon. Eve 6
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You live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on. David Levithan
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This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us. S.c. Stephens
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I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly. Henning Mankell
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When I first started shooting 'Sharpe, ' back in the early 1990s, I'd kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August - Evie wasn't even born then - and I wouldn't see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times. Sean Bean
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A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it. Helen Rowland
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The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. Terry Pratchett
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History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' Eduardo Galeano
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I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans. Alison Sweeney
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. Richard Armour