Quotes about goodbye
C.S. Lewis - and the Wardrobe
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
George Packer -
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.
Margo T. Rose - The Words
It's not that I'm angryYou've done nothing wrong.I'm just not sure why I'm stayingWhen you're already gone.
Margo T. Rose - The Words
There's no room for me in your worldIt's time I stopped pretending.But nothing hurts me moreThan a friendship when it's ending.
Shannon L. Alder -
I am not afraid to die I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.
Donna M. Zadunajsky - Help Me!
Before you leave me again, tell me, so I can let you know if I’m ready to watch you go...
Beyoncé Knowles -
Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye
Ufuoma Apoki -
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
Nabil TOUSSI -
To say goodbye, is to die a little.To say good morning, is a hope for a new sunshine in a cloudy winter.
Colleen Boyd - Swamp Angel
I don't hate you," I tell her. And I honestly don't. Because love can't be faked when magic's involved. Ivy didn't push me out of the way just to gain a soul. She didn't force anything. It was all her choice to save and lo
David Levithan - and Other Stories
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.
Charlotte Eriksson -
I go to the ocean to say goodbye.
David Levithan - The Realm of Possibility
you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.
Deyth Banger -
There isn't doubt, what I learn about marketing it's shitty stuff, I like sample I don't like complex... It's not for me and family it's not so rich to аllow such vocabulary and I don't see a future of such vocabulary.As a second I want to say goodbye to GreenHollyWood, probably I won't see him anymore.As a third thanks to the people which were around me and are still friends with me.
Sarah J. Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Where are you going?”He looked over his shoulder at me. “If I stay, you won’t get any sleep.”“Stay,” I said. “I promise to keep my hands to myself.” Lie—such an outright lie.He gave me a half smile that told me he knew it, too, but nestled down, tugging me into his arms. I wrapped an arm around his waist and rested my head in the hollow of his shoulder.He idly stroked my hair. I didn’t want to sleep—didn’t want to lose a minute with him—but an immense exhaustion was pulling me away from consciou
Leena Ahmad Almashat - Harmony Letters
The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.
Marie Lu - Prodigy
I need to let him go.
Marie Lu - Prodigy
Goodnight, June.
S.C. Stephens - Effortless
This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us.
A. Lynn - Itsy's Ugly
The word goodbye stuck to her tongue. She wasn’t ready to say it. Because goodbye weighed more when forever hung off the end. And she wasn’t sure about forever. She wasn’t sure about anything. Except that, at that moment, she wanted to believe he would always be there. Even if it meant many years down the road. She needed to still have something to hold onto.
Gregory Maguire - Out of Oz
Well, I learned to cook. At my age," she told him. "What's next? Art therapy? Anyway, I've had quite a time of it this summer, and who knows what eases down on any road. Come, Rain. A quick goodbye, and off you go." "Goodbye," said Rain to the Lion, and then to the woman. "Not to them," said Glinda, "To me."She turned eyes that were saucerly upon Glinda. "Mum?
Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Princess
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.
J.A. Redmerski -
Dear Camryn,I never wanted it to be this way. I wanted to tell you these things myself, but I was afraid. I was afraid that if I told you out loud that I loved you, that what we had together would die with me. The truth is that I knew in Kansas that you were the one. I’ve loved you since that day when I first looked up into your eyes as you glared down at me from over the top of that bus seat. Maybe I didn’t know it then, but I knew something had happened to me in that moment and I could never l
Rachel A. Marks - Winter Rose
I drag the body out into the snowdrifts, as far away from our shack as I can muster. I put her in a thicket of trees, where the green seems to still have a voice in the branches, and try not to think about the beasts that’ll soon be gathering. There’s no way of burying her; the ground is a solid rock of ice beneath us.I kneel beside her and want desperately to weep. My throat tightens and my head aches. Everything hurts inside. But I have no way of releasing it. I’m locked up and hard as stone.“
Eve 6 -
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.
Craig Ferguson - American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away again. I returned to Glasgow, planning to say a final goodbye to Anne and get out of her life, but ended up drinking with buddies in the Chip Bar and never seeing her. I called her instead to say I was moving to London and told her she could have the
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift: Speak Now
Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.
Jean Teulé - The Suicide Shop
Alan! How many more times do I have to tell you? We do not say “see you soon” to customers when they leave our shop. We say “goodbye”, because they won’t be coming back, ever. When will you get that into your thick head?
Shannon A. Thompson - July Lightning
Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.
Chris Weitz -
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.
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate
There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
Alyson Noel - Eternal Flame
I lean back against the velvet-cushioned seat and close my eyes to the sound of hooves pounding hard against the cobblestone streets. Their clip-clopping harmony keeping perfect tempo with the rumble of carriage wheels, affording a sound as sweet as any symphony I've ever heard. It's the sound of escapeThe sound of goodbyeA sound that's served to soothe me in the past, providing the much-needed assurance that the unwelcome inquiries and suspicions of newly alerted acquaintances would soon fade -
Celia McMahon -
When I am brave enough to say goodbyeI'll use the wings you gave meand away I'll fly
Tennessee Williams -
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
Henning Mankell -
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.
Faith Erin Hicks - The Nameless City
What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.
Luccini Shurod - The Painter
In your travels, do not draw your attention to those stones in the dirt that cause your feet to ache. But rather draw your attention to the loveliness of all that does surround you. Marvel at the blades of grass that seem to turn silk under the loom of golden leaves that share with you the sun’s warmth and ponder the impression of that morning fog whose kiss good morning gently asks Mother Nature to arise so that her spirit can bask in the beauty of her own imagination as she gazes into the dist
Sarah J. Maas - Queen of Shadows
Where will we go?""I hear hell is particularly nice at this time of year.
Jimi Hendrix -
The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Elisabetta Canalis -
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
Dominic Monaghan -
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.
David Friedman -
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.
Sean Bean -
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.
Lang Leav - Love & Misadventure
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.
Ransom Riggs - Hollow City
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.
Kami Garcia -
She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
Kellie Elmore - Jagged Little Pieces
...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.
Sanhita Baruah -
Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?There won't be any reason to return then.All you can do is look ahead and not to stumble and fall on the pit ahead waiting for you.
Corrine Jackson - Pushed
Forgive me," he said in a hard voice. "My heart is breaking over here. I'm doing the best I can.
David Levithan - and Other Stories
I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment.
A Fine Frenzy -
So you're gone and i'm hauntedAnd i bet you are just fineDid i make it that easy to walkRight in and out of my life
Charlotte Eriksson -
It’s just as hard to go back to a place you once left, as it is to leave it again.
Brandon Villasenor - I Can't Stop Drinking About You
I miss her | & not the type of missing when you’re alone, not the type when you’re broken down half drunk, not even the type when you know she’s the one. I’m talking about the kind of missing that when you’re full of happiness…you wish they were there to enjoy it. I don’t care if we’re not together, I don’t care if I never see her again. All that I will every know is I’m here smiling & I know how much she’d like to see that.
H.V. Morton - In Search Of England
All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.
Maggie Stiefvater - Linger
I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye
Shannon L. Alder -
Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.
Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.The hundred-year-old man set off in his pee-slippers (so called because men of an advanced age rarely pee further than their shoes), first through a park and then alongside an open field where a market was occasionally held in the otherwise quiet provincial town.
Patricia Reilly Giff - Lily's Crossing
I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.
Donna Lynn Hope -
It seems that the people who come into our lives and stay for the briefest amount of time have the greatest impact upon us. Time may change some things, but not all things. Each day brings me closer to him, and the age in which he passed from this world into the next, but I still fight the urge, on rare occasions, to pick up the phone and dial his number, which I still remember. It's decades later, but that last meal we shared, laughing and smiling at each other from across the table, lost in ha
Stacey T. Hunt - The Adventure Begins
I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.
Amy Winehouse -
Feel so fucking angry; don't want to be reminded of you, But when I left my shit in your kitchen, I said goodbye to your bedroom it smelled of you
Nabil TOUSSI -
I will not hate you, of course i will not say : goodbye.But I will not forgive you, so i forget better.
Raphael Zernoff -
Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.
Renee Ahdieh - The Rose & the Dagger
I-" Irsa took a careful breath to steady her words. " I have felt alone for most of my life. Until you." She placed the shell on his chest. " But I promise I won't feel alone anymore. I will never forget." She stood on shaky feet. "I will always remember." "I love you Rahim al-Din Walad . Thank you for loving me in return.
Jeff Thomas -
There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.
Nora Sakavic - The King's Men
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.
Rose Wynters - My Wolf Fighter
In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye. In their capable hands, though, surely they could keep her alive long enough for him to return. They had to.
Garth Nix - Abhorsen
I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!''There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the Dog. 'You have found your family, your heritage, and you have earned a high place in the world. I love you too, but my time with you has passed.
Amy McNamara - Dark and Deep
And that's just it. This is how it is. Always. To pay attention to things. People. It's too easy to fail other people. And the good-byes. You never have the time you think. It brings tears to my eyes. I blink them away.
Dani Shapiro -
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
Helen Rowland -
A man never knows how to say goodbye a woman never knows when to say it.
Terry Pratchett -
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.
John Burroughs -
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
Douglas MacArthur -
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Christopher McCandless -
I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!
Dennis Franz -
I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.
T. C. Boyle -
It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
Trey Parker -
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Lilith Saintcrow -
It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.
Eduardo Galeano -
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
Alison Sweeney -
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.
Johnny Depp -
I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting... and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.
Muhammad Yunus -
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
Richard Armour -
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
Amy Carlson -
To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.
Jane Fonda -
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
Luanne Rice -
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.
Nikki Rowe -
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.
Charlotte Eriksson -
He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
Sarah Dessen - What Happened to Goodbye
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
Tit Elingtin - Eminent Domain
You are a strong woman now, not the insecure, introverted, spoiled brat I married. You know adversity and know how to fight for success. You will do great in this world as you carry on. Be careful. Remember: they all want to fuck you. Few will love you. I do and did.
Rachel Joyce - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Things don't so much end as disappear. They don't so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
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.
M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry
I am not surprised of your goodbye, breaking heart and leaving behind; maybe these are what angels do for fun.
Cornell Woolrich - The Black Angel
It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.
Saul Williams -
The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses