Top 100 Not Goodbye Quotes
#2. This is not goodbye, my son. This is many more opportunities to say hello.
Kunal Nayyar
#3. This is not goodbye forever, my sweet girl, only for now. We love you with all of our hearts....
Kristen Day
#4. It's not goodbye, little dhampir. I'll see you in your dreams.
Richelle Mead
#5. Goodbye!" "Oh, not goodbye!" he protested. "I mean to know you better, Miss Lanyon of Undershaw!" "To be sure, it does seem a pity you should not, after such a promising start, but life, you know, is full of disappointments, and that, I must warn you, is likely to prove one of them.
Georgette Heyer
#6. That's what people say
'It's not goodbye'
when they're too afraid to face what they're really feeling.
Rainbow Rowell
#7. It's not goodbye, Sam. It's see you in two days. I promise ... " she said stroking his hair away from his dimpled cheek.
"I'm counting on it. You will be missed," he said as he put her hand on his chest near his heart. "You will be missed right here ...
Rachel Hanna
#8. I can't shake the feeling that Parker just told me goodbye. Not goodbye to our friendship, because that will always be there in some capacity. But goodbye to the way we used to be. The way we could have been.
Lauren Layne
#9. I pretended not to see as Eddie kissed Jill goodbye and promised to see her soon.
Richelle Mead
#10. I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. Even though they, each for his own reason, did not wish to end the conversation, they had come to the end of what they could say in peace, and said goodbye.
Boris Fishman
#12. But I'm not everyone am I?
You, Rebel Blue, are anything but ordinary
Shelley Coriell
#13. DEDICATED TO YOU:
I cannot believe you and I have come so far. Your book is not a goodbye, however-just another beginning.
But you're used to that ...
J.R. Ward
#15. At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same
Bram Stoker
#16. Do you think it's right to not say goodbye to the man you yourself said was on the very first page of your very first volume of your diary? This is the very last page of his.
Yasunari Kawabata
#17. I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my time
Leonard Cohen
#18. I am not the worst thing that can happen to you, but I will be the last. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man.
A. Giannoccaro
#19. I know what you're thinking and you're wrong. This isn't goodbye, Kitten. I didn't survive over two hundred years to find you only to lose you within five months. I want you, but I'm not saying goodbye to you, because we will get through this.
Jeaniene Frost
#20. He kissed me tenderly as my heart thumped out of control. My fingers slipped into his thick, black hair and held tightly. He paused, not wanting to pull away. I didn't let him. I was going to say goodbye properly. I held tightly, pressing my lips to his, soft at first then hard with desire.
Leigh Goff
#21. You risked much, to give your love to such a one.
I stared at him. Love?
Did you not know, until now, when you must say goodbye?
Juliet Marillier
#22. 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
#23. You're simply not perfect. And that's all there is to it. Your imperfections are glaring. It was nice fucking you. Good luck and goodbye.
J.A. Huss
#24. Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.
Richard O'Brien
#25. I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
Dave Reichert
#26. This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes ... not between us.
S.C. Stephens
#27. Saying goodbye to someone you love isn't really the hard part. It's living every day, not being able to say anything to them at all.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#28. It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
When you're already gone.
Margo T. Rose
#29. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Trey Parker
#31. Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock, do not say hello or goodbye, do not ask what's for dinner, do not disturb me unless the police or firemen have to be called."
Judith Krantz
#33. Good-bye, she murmured, bidding farewell not so much to the apartment as to the self that had lived here.
Haruki Murakami
#34. 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
#35. Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.
Jonathan Nolan
#36. Come back, come back, back to Jamaica
Don't you know we made a big mistaika
We would be so sad if you told us goodbye
And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!
Jimmy Buffett
#37. The first things people always ask are,
why?
And how?
But not with me.
I don't want to do anything.
I don't want to be anything.
I want to disappear elegantly.
I want people to look for my goodbye note
and find nothing but smoke.
Lora Mathis
#38. 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
#39. I don't lose. Do you hear me? I don't lose and that includes losing you. I'm done being kept in the dark. Im done feeling like you're slipping right past me. You are not saying goodbye to me. I'm in love with you and you love me back. You are staying.
Katie McGarry
#40. Goodbye- please don't cry/we both know that I'm not what you need. But I will always love you.
Dolly Parton
#41. I hope they understand that I'm not angry, I'm just saying ... Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Shinedown
#42. I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more.
Jennifer Lopez
#43. This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
Juliet Marillier
#44. Goodbye Brad, missed you at the Tour and Vuelta. NOT! I so nailed you with my book. I killed your last chances to ever ride a grand tour. Watching you beg in the press was fun, it really was.
Chris Froome
#45. She said, 'Goodbye, Reuben, a love for decency does not abide in you.' There is your divorced woman talking about decency. I told her, I said, 'Goodbye, Nola, I hope that little nail selling bastard will make you happy this time.
Charles Portis
#46. Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.
Lisa Gardner
#47. They got their happy ending. That's the only reason why I can make myself walk away, make myself say goodbye to my girls, even though it kills me that I'm not the reason behind their smiles. And I will never be.
Mia Asher
#48. When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with ...
Lorrie Moore
#49. Like the voice of a number of homosexuals, this is an insinuating blend of eagerness and caution in which even such words as "hello" and "goodbye" seem not so much uttered as divulged.
Quentin Crisp
#50. When Hodges returns to his chair with his small bundle of mail, the fight-show host is saying goodbye and promising his TV Land audience that tomorrow there will be midgets. Whether of the physical or mental variety he does not specify.
Stephen King
#51. We have
Not one
In common
No two
Are shaped alike
The third
Because of that eye we lack
In the fourth
Direction there is hope
The fifth Is at the heart
-Orihime Inoue
Tite Kubo
#52. I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.
Michael Easton
#53. I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT ... Goodbye.
Steve Maraboli
#54. SALLY Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.
Nora Ephron
#55. 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.
Sanhita Baruah
#56. I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.
Hans Kung
#57. "I...love you...Rylan. But do not fear...I'll be seeing you...again...I am...forever watching..."
She breathes her last. The fire races across her face and through her hair.
I watch as she lifted up with the rising smoke.
Colleen Boyd
#58. Leaving helps, sometimes. And it's not always a for ever goodbye. There's leaving and coming back.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. Goodbye, goodbye!
There was so much to love, I could not love it all;
I could not love it enough.
Louise Bogan
#60. No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.
Terry Pratchett
#61. He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.
Stephen King
#62. Goodbyes are not forever
Goodbyes aren't final, when
You only mean we'll miss you
Until we meet again
John Walter Bratton
#63. This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.
It was a goodbye kiss.
Penelope Ward
#64. Kate is going to die. It took me a long time to be able to say that. We all are going to die, when you get down to it, but it's not supposed to be like this. Kate ought to be the one saying goodbye to me.
Jodi Picoult
#65. Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep.
Clifford D. Simak
#66. 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.
William Cowper
#67. And I want to kiss you every day, but not just because I'm saying goodbye.
Melissa Pearl
#68. Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.
Jeff Buckley
#70. The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They're always around. I'm not sure if that's healthy. But they're all there.
Johnny Depp
#71. I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.
Patricia Briggs
#72. Just kiss me goodbye,' she whispered.
Only for today, he thought. Not ever.
Rainbow Rowell
#73. Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.
Cassandra Clare
#74. When everything goes wrong, it's better to remember
someone who is not going to question you or blame you for what
you have done. Not even offer some free advice.
That's the best thing about God.
Sheeja Jose
#75. I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.
Anya
#76. 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?
Jean Teule
#77. In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes.
Woody Allen
#78. Ellie?" he said. Just the reflection of his ice-blue irises seared through me. "Do you know what's coming?" "Goodbye?" I said, only half-joking. Jubal smiled, concentrating again on the road. "Maybe not.
Jamie McGuire
#79. Our thoughts were so awesome to us, that no one could speak a word, not even 'Goodbye.' We hugged and clasped and wept silently.
Fred Chappell
#80. I kissed his cheek. "My King." I swooped into the courtly curtsy he'd taught me as a girl, regally kicking an imaginary train aside as I turned to go. He was laughing silently as I left. For a moment I saw that spark again. I did not say goodbye.
Sandra Gulland
#81. It was a farewell. Not a good-bye, but a fare ... well. and he had the sense they would.
J.R. Ward
#82. Your mere goodbye and i got the long nights to cry
No,those are not stars you see in the sky..
I cried, Those are the diamonds of my eyes ...
Upasana Banerjee
#83. Goodbye, 2014. You've been a real kick in my lady balls; I definitely will not miss you. Hello, 2015, the year of success and new adventures,
Danielle Jamie
#84. I roll my eyes. "I'm not asking you to take your clothes off, baby. I just want to peek at your midterm."
"Baby? Goodbye forward, hello presumptuous.
Elle Kennedy
#85. I try to say goodbye and I choke
Try to walk away and I stumble
Though I try to hide it, it's clear
My world crumbles when you are not here
Macy Gray
#86. We're not made to say goodbye. God didn't make us that way. We're eternal beings meant to live with him and those we love forever. So when we have to part with a loved one for a while because of death, it hurts.
Lynette Eason
#87. He's not coming back. Maybe I do know this after all. Goodbye. I say to him in my head. I say it tenderly. I try to tell him with that one word how sorry I am.
Deb Caletti
#88. I'm not saying goodbye," he says as he shoves his hands in his pockets. "Because this isn't over. One day, fate's going to fix this. Bring us back together. I believe that.
Leisa Rayven
#89. That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye
Richard Armour
#90. Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
Anders Zorn
#91. Please do not - " Before he could argue with her any more to stay or persuade her he'd fix the situation, she'd picked up her bag and stalked out the door. He mumbled, "Leave me."
Lex was gone.
Avery Aster
#92. Subconsciously, I have started to say goodbye to the people and objects in my life as if preparing to die, even though I have no real plan. I just feel strongly, in my gut, that I'm not meant to stay here.
Deborah Feldman
#93. 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.
Jane Fonda
#94. 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.
Amy Carlson
#95. I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always.
Mark Twain
#96. Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.
Maggie Stiefvater
#97. Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not very concerned.
Charlotte Eriksson
#98. 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.
Tit Elingtin
#99. (Actually now I'm remembering that the goodbye chow isn't spelled that way. It's ciao or something weird like that. It's Italian, right? But I'm not an Italian gypsy, I'm a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)
Wendelin Van Draanen
#100. We can not change our densities. We just have to have the coirage to know what they are, and accept them. StarClan is waiting for me. Goodbye, Leafpool.
Erin Hunter
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