Top 100 Quotes About Farewell
#1. Farewell best beloved, here at last I shall rest with thee, with thee in Christ I shall rise again'.(written on Prince Albert's and Queen Victorias's mausoleum)
Victoria Magazine
#2. Apt and poetic though this was, it was simply too bleak to read at a funeral. Instead I settled on Rumfoord's farewell speech on page 2007, which starts: "I am not dying. I am merely taking my leave of the solar system," and ends: "I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.
Gavin Extence
#3. While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#4. I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.
Kim Hyesoon
#5. I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
Ernest Hemingway,
#6. Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.
Robin Hobb
#7. Okay, get out of here. Scram. Farewell," Piper said as more of the wall moved uneasily, the uppermost surface shifting dustily to the floor. "Go be short somewhere else.
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale, he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.
Cassandra Clare
#9. In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.
Yokoyama Sakujiro
#10. I stared at the words and they did not swim or blur. Rats have no tears. Dry and cold was the world and beautiful the words. Words of good-bye and farewell, farewell and so long, from the little one and the Big One. I folded the passage up again and I ate it.
Sam Savage
#13. When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!
C.S. Lewis
#14. In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. We all come and go. This universe is staying here with endless joy of welcoming and an infinite sadness of farewell.
Debasish Mridha
#16. There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.
Ideas are bulletproof.
Farewell.
Alan Moore
#18. The elf nodded. From her saddlebow, she took a lute, a marvelous instrument of light, tastefully inlaid wood with a slender, engraved neck. Without a word, she handed the lute to Dandilion. The poet accepted the instrument and smiled. Also without a word, but his eyes said a great deal. "Farewell,
Andrzej Sapkowski
#19. The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river.
Naomi Wood
#20. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.
Mindy Kaling
#21. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.-
The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.
John Bunyan
#23. Take care, Gallowglass," Matthew murmured. It was no casual farewell, but an order. His nephew nodded. "As if your wife were my own.
Deborah Harkness
#24. That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.
Anne Rice
#26. Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.
Walt Disney Company
#27. Yet I know that good is coming to me - that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.
George MacDonald
#28. Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!
Lord Byron
#29. The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
Marianne Williamson
#30. If you're saying farewell to your arms, what do you use to wave goodbye?
Stephen Colbert
#31. Hamlet: Farewell, dear mother
Claudius: Thy loving father, Hamlet
Hamlet: My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh; so my mother.
William Shakespeare
#32. Once upon a time, out of nowhere a car appeared and headed straight for Mal Bennett. 'Long time, no see,' the engine roared, and the clanging muffler agreed. The car embraced Mal, really soul-kissed him, then said 'Farewell,' tossing him back onto his beloved, sacred lawn.
Henry H. Roth
#33. And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
Alexandre Dumas
#34. Mornings sunrise is yesterdays farewell"
~James Lagoski~
James Lagoski
#35. When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Isaac Watts
#36. Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain.
Daphne Du Maurier
#38. Maybe we will meet again in the paths of dreaming, but my heart tells me this is farewell.
Erin Hunter
#39. Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.
H.P. Lovecraft
#40. 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.
Donald E. Westlake
#41. Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#42. So then I bid him farewell and walked down the side of the pool leading to the outside entrance where I waited for soph to come down so we could walk home together
Adrian Hadzic
#43. So farewell to the little good you bear me
Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!
William Shakespeare
#44. Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you ... (Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)
Randy Pausch
#45. Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? Well I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was the last thing on my mind.
Phil Ochs
#46. I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.
Kevin Hart
#47. Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.
Thomas Wyatt
#48. I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
Henrik Ibsen
#49. Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.
Jon Stewart
#50. Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
Holly Black
#52. 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.
Miriam Makeba
#53. 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.
Thomas Francis Meagher
#54. And yet he held his tongue, wanting his farewell with Marina to be peaceable, not out of any magnanimity, but so that after Tor ruined her - he felt confident Tor would ruin her - and she was once more alone, she would think of Lucy's graciousness and feel the long-lingering sting of bitter regret.
Patrick DeWitt
#55. It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#56. I do not wish to offend you, believe me. I have told you my decision. Nothing can change it. I must leave, I must travel, I must be free. Let me thank you cordially once again, and let us bid each other a friendly farewell.
Hermann Hesse
#57. Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
William Shakespeare
#58. Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!
Michael Moorcock
#59. The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
(A Qualified Farewell)
Raymond Chandler
#61. Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
William Shakespeare
#62. Farewell, my friend, Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.
R.A. Salvatore
#64. The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope.
Wilkie Collins
#65. Two farewell gifts," Sadie muttered, "from two gorgeous guys. I hate my life.
Rick Riordan
#66. It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
Karen Blixen
#67. It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Lance Armstrong
#68. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. Farewell, Birdflight, Gorsekit, Spottedkit. I will find you again one day, I promise.
Erin Hunter
#70. Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.
Bassam Tibi
#71. Farewell Aragorn. Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. I kiss him good-bye in my head, bidding farewell to the one I have loved in silence.
Stacey Lee
#73. Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
Hans Christian Andersen
#74. Children are angels.
They are protected by God.
But because God cannot be seen, they feel lonely ...
... so they bid farewell to God ...
... and go to live with people.
They let go of the paradise that protected them ...
... to be loved by the ones they love.
Arina Tanemura
#75. That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!
Robert Pollok
#76. Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added, "Farewell for ever!
Charlotte Bronte
#77. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars
That make ambition virtue.
William Shakespeare
#78. Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
William Shakespeare
#80. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#81. A white-tailed hawk still flew overhead, and it swooped low to brush its star-silvered wing against her cheek in farewell before it turned back with a sharp cry.
Sarah J. Maas
#82. Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.
Mason Cooley
#83. I love you, too.
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.
Megan McCafferty
#84. I write only to bid you Farewell. The spell is removed; I see you as you are.
Jane Austen
#85. A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.
James Joyce
#86. There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.
Richard K. Morgan
#87. Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
Comte De Lautreamont
#88. Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home ...
Richard Crashaw
#89. Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
Augustus
#90. I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour.
Ruben Blades
#91. Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.
Lord Byron
#92. I wanted to dance. I wanted to be swept up in the long desert night, sending a farewell to the fallen and embracing the living.
Rachel E. Carter
#93. Maranatha:A phrase that St. Paul used once as a farewell which means Come, O Lord!
Anonymous
#94. The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned
Kathleen Raine
#95. The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#96. So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
John Milton
#97. Why is it that we can better bear to part in spirit than in body, and while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it?
Charles Dickens
#98. My heart's pounding like I'm watching Oprah's farewell season.
LIZ
#99. Ave Atque Vale
Hail and farewell
Catullus
#100. Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J.R.R. Tolkien
