Top 36 Quotes About Farewells
#1. Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!
Thomas De Quincey
#3. Death happened often enough that a certain melancholy existed between the young men and women of the little West Virginia town when they made their daily farewells
Homer Hickam
#4. All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
Lord Byron
#5. Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
William Cowper
#7. Muddle of farewells before we put off; we talked a little about the boat, our fellow-passengers and our prospects, and then I said: "I think you mentioned last night a name I know - that of Mr. Porterfield." "Oh no I didn't!
Henry James
#8. Windows were broken. Where not broken they were boarded up, had been for years: the rust from nailheads had written long, sad farewells down the salt-silvered planks.
Joseph Hansen
#9. Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.
Kangin
#10. I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells,
Gannicus
#12. To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
Jorge Luis Borges
#13. Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her re-unions.
Milan Kundera
#14. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.
M. John Harrison
#15. Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.
Beth Moore
#16. But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.
Sarah Dessen
#17. They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is
Nobuhiro Watsuki
#19. Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
Daphne Du Maurier
#20. If we knew when we woke up that it would be the last day of our lives, we would transform every little act of our daily humdrum into small farewells.
Alexandre A. Loch
#21. Give warm greetings and farewells. I was surprised by how much this resolution changed the atmosphere of my home.
Gretchen Rubin
#22. Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.
Jessamyn West
#23. And now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.
Paul Auster
#24. Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
Boris Pasternak
#25. One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.
Choi Yoon-young
#26. It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#27. Now that you've said hello, I'm afraid we move right into farewells. Hello, goodbye. Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell, as they say,
Haruki Murakami
#28. No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.
Matsuri Hino
#29. Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#30. Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude.
Andres Neuman
#31. This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn't want to forget a single one.
Banana Yoshimoto
#32. Encounters are after all merely future farewells and he could live with that as long as they both got happy endings. Even if it meant they didn't get it together.
BeccaAmon
#33. Goodbye," she said.
When I didn't say it back, she rested her hand on the top of my head. The weight was strange and gentle. "I love you," she said. "And when I tell you goodbye, I don't mean forever or for long. Just that I'm going home now, and so are you.
Brenna Yovanoff
#34. Save your kisses for the world, little one.
- Magnus to Lestat before going into the fire.
Anne Rice
#35. AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted.
Gail Carson Levine
#36. A 'hello again' after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.
Jessiqua Wittman