Farewells Quotes
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. (Quote by - Donald Cargill)
Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
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. (Quote by - Alan Alda)
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? (Quote by - Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd)
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. (Quote by - Robert Southey)
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Let's not unman each other - part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
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. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller)
One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'. (Quote by - Richard Simmons)
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
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. (Quote by - Dale Evans)
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. (Quote by - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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. (Quote by - Robert Dodsley)
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
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. 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. (Quote by - Gilda Radner)
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! (Quote by - Robert Pollok)
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. (Quote by - Alcibiades)
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ. (Quote by - Donald Cargill)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. (Quote by - Flavia Weedn, Forever, © Flavia.com)
Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Gone - flitted away,Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. (Quote by - Alfred Tennyson)
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. (Quote by - Hans Urs von Balthasar)
May the sun shine, all day long, everything go right, and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love back to you, and may all the wishes you wish come true! (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too, And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity. (Quote by - John Donne)
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. (Quote by - John Dryden)
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 (Quote by - Tom Petty)
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
Don't be dismayed at 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. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. (Quote by - Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed )
May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! (Quote by - Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton)
I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. (Quote by - Miriam Makeba)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. (Quote by - Ivy Baker Priest)
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson, "Parting")
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. (Quote by - A.A. Milne)
Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part. (Quote by - John Gay)
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French)
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. (Quote by - Etty Hillesum)
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. (Quote by - Anna Brownell Jameson)
She went her unremmbering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be. (Quote by - Francis Thompson)
May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. (Quote by - Irish Toast)
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. (Quote by - Attributed to Claudia Ghandi)
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? (Quote by - Nicholas Rowe)
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. (Quote by - William Cowper)
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. (Quote by - Robert Reed)
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. (Quote by - Charles M. Schulz)
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. (Quote by - William Shenstone)
Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. (Quote by - R.M. Grenon)
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. (Quote by - Kay Knudsen)
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been - A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell! (Quote by - Lord Byron)
To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. (Quote by - George Lansdowne)
What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? (Quote by - Frances Anne Kemble)
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. (Quote by - Irish Blessing)
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. (Quote by - Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie)
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. (Quote by - Thomas Francis Meagher)
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. (Quote by - Robert Byrne)
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. (Quote by - Donald E. Westlake)
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. (Quote by - Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook)
