Top 100 Quotes About Goodbyes
#2. Goodbyes always make my throat hurt ... I need more hellos
Charlie Brown
#3. Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving ... Always moving on.
Karen Kingsbury
#4. Who hears the wishes and goodbyes? The speaker does ... And you hope that what you say from the heart has power. Power to protect, power to reach the ears of the dead. A spoken thing or a whished-hard thing takes a shape within the heart, man. Takes shape. Becomes real.
Adrian Phoenix
#5. I'd been prepared for the goodbyes - as prepared as anyone could be, I guess - but I wasn't at all prepared for a hello.
Beth Revis
#6. I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.
Estella Warren
#7. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.
Madeleine L'Engle
#8. saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life.
Annoymous
#9. So long as I remain in Day's life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.
Now, he is free.
Marie Lu
#10. Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.
Kelly Link
#11. At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone.
"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
"He doesn't say goodbye," Inej said. She kept her eyes on the lights of the canal. Somewhere in the garden, a night bird began to sing. "He just lets go.
Leigh Bardugo
#12. There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.
Ashton Kutcher
#13. Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.
Janet Leigh
#14. Bards don't believe in goodbyes - we know that the roads we walk are winding, and we generally tend to come back to people and places we've known and been before, and often at just the right time." I smiled. "We'll meet again.
Sean Gibson
#15. We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.
Estelle Maskame
#16. It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.
Jay Kristoff
#17. He cut the connection before she could answer. Long goodbyes weren't anyone's strong suit.
James S.A. Corey
#18. I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.
Stephen Schwartz
#19. There are no goodbyes in life. Only see you later.
Kate McCarthy
#20. I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?
Aishah Madadiy
#21. You're talking like a Stalinist!' I cried. 'People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! Can't you see, it's just a terrible vicious circle!
Paul Murray
#23. Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
Dylan Moran
#24. Goodbyes are not forever
Goodbyes aren't final, when
You only mean we'll miss you
Until we meet again
John Walter Bratton
#25. Not so bad this ending because one is getting used to endings: life like Morse, a series of dots and dashes, never forming a paragraph.
Graham Greene
#26. Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.
Luanne Rice
#27. I realize then, what my mother already knows - has known for a long time. Motherhood is a procession of goodbyes. Some bittersweet and filled with promise and hope, some gradual, a gentle prying away of your fingers from something precious, some more violent, unexpected.
Heather Gudenkauf
#28. I do plan on saying one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him.
Suzanne Collins
#29. She could have lived every minute she'd had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.
Veronica Rossi
#30. I can't pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you're immune. We suffer
for you. I'm weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you'll never forget your friends.
Jalina Mhyana
#31. Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.
Mary E. Pearson
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
Jodi Picoult
#38. As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye.
Martina Boone
#39. I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.
C.J. Redwine
#40. Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A.A. Milne
#41. Maybe not all goodbyes are the end - and that's what makes them good.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#42. 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.
Ransom Riggs
#43. 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
#44. For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.
Nicole Sobon
#45. I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.
Laura Wiess
#46. I write you a letter that begins
With I love you and ends with I love you and
Somewhere in the middle is one goodbye for
Every hurt
Patricia Smith
#47. Wasted tries, The many whys, Is it the soul of Compromise?
Lows and highs, Believing in lies, In life we have to improvise.
Frustration and cries, The last leg of sighs, You are the dreamer in disguise!
To the guilt say goodbyes, Open your eyes, Your soul - I do so recognize.
Julieanne O'Connor
#48. I don't like goodbyes, NBC does.
Jay Leno
#49. 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
#50. Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes ...
Stephen Sondheim
#51. It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you
Nicholas Sparks
#52. And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.
Neil Gaiman
#53. This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.
Soraya Lane
#55. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
Raymond Chandler
#56. High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about.
Nancy Gibbs
#57. Some goodbyes are not ends but releases.
Beau Taplin
#58. After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever!
Atul Purohit
#59. No worries and no goodbyes, just give me a smile.
David Rangel
#60. All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
Mitch Albom
#61. Life, will be a very great deal less weird without you!
Douglas Adams
#62. Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there.
Khadija Rupa
#63. The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.
Nicholaus Patnaude
#64. You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every waved farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one.
Dani Atkins
#65. A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
Allan Gregg
#66. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi
#67. Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude.
Andres Neuman
#68. It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
#69. Come! Let us make that bargain. Think of me at my best, if circumstances should ever part us!
Charles Dickens
#70. 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
#71. Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.
Holly Hood
#72. What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us.
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.
V.C. Andrews
#73. Salvage your smiles, Silence your goodbyes
Byron Graves
#75. And there it is: Even though we're standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
Lauren Oliver
#76. If I could slam the door, I would. If I could walk to another room, I would. The best I can do is turn and head for the far corner of my cell. In prison, even goodbyes are beyond my control.
T.J. Forrester
#77. For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.
Justin Cronin
#78. We've shared good (times)
We've shared good fries
We've shared good (beers)
But never goodbyes ...
Till now
Mind how you go, good buddy
John Walter Bratton
#80. 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
#81. It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go ...
Brock Thoene
#82. I feel like a man standing at the mouth of an old mine-shaft that is full of cave-ins waiting to happen, standing there and saying goodbye to the daylight.
Stephen King
#83. This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes ... not between us.
S.C. Stephens
#84. Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.
Jojo Moyes
#85. He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.
Alessandro Baricco
#86. Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be
Abbi Glines
#87. I've done goodbyes before, and I can do this one, too. Somehow this one hurts worse than the others; because this one I could prevent if I wanted to, since I'm the one saying it. This goodbye comes with a choice the way none of the others did.
Katja Millay
#88. Then, she began to breathe, and live, and every moment took her to a place where goodbyes were hard to come by. she was in love, but not in love with someone or something, she was in love with her life. and for the first time, in a long time, everything was inspiring.
Anonymous
#89. She has become someone that I am bound to forget her.
J. Limbu
#90. Goodbyes are not forever. They are always partnered with see you again.
Mathilda Maldita
#91. Isia stepped forward. "Yes, sir. I know." Holding his fine brilliant wings above his body, he stood in front of us with his luminous lidless eyes full upon us. "I'm sorry to leave you. We've shared a lot together, and you have loved me even when I was ugly. But we'll see each other. Good-bye.
Sheila Moon
#92. So let's say our bloody goodbyes, and then you can promise to remember me from my good old days.
"I can't do that," Minho said.
James Dashner
#93. I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'
Gigi Graham
#94. Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos.
Melody Manful
#96. The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.
Ashly Lorenzana
#97. I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn't as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But no sense being sentimental about it. Sentiment is stupid.
Barry Eisler
#98. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This ... is goodbye. But not out last hello.
Charles Martin
#99. And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.
Ivo Andric
#100. Also, I suppose I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive, after all.
Stephen King
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