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Quotes About Parting

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
~ John Harrison
In the end, we parted ways in good terms, and Shakhtar had a nice sending-off for me. I wish them well, and I am sure they feel the same.
~ Fernandinho
Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.
~ Suzi Quatro
The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.
~ Steve Buscemi
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
In every parting there is an image of death.
~ George Eliot
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
I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.
~ Philip Levine
I know that Thomas consented to this single picture only because he knew (had decided) that it was our last moment together. He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.
~ Philippe Besson
He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.
~ Philippe Besson
Je sais que Thomas n'a consenti à cette unique photo que parce qu'il avait compris (décidé) que c'était notre dernier moment ensemble. Il sourit pour que j'emporte son sourire avec moi.
~ Philippe Besson
Because now I know. I know that Thomas consented to this single picture only because he knew (had decided) that it was our last moment together. He smiled so that I could take his smile with me.
~ Philippe Besson
He tells me something I did not know: that I will leave.
~ Philippe Besson
Porque tu um dia hás de partir e nós vamos ficar.
~ Philippe Besson
Au moment de nous quitter, nous choisissions de ne pas dire un mot, d'être dans le silence. Il y a une étreinte, un regard. Il n'y a pas de baiser, pas d'au revoir. Il y a juste ton corps en partance et le mien qui reste. Il y a les battements de ton coeur qui s'accélèrent et les miens qui ralentissent. Il y a l'effroi. Il y a le temps derrière nous, et le temps devant nous. Il y a la tendresse qui se brise.
~ Philippe Besson
Pour finir, il dit qu'il m'aime et je le crois. Il parle d'une voix épuisée, presque résignée, comme pour un baroud d'honneur. Je l'écoute. Je lui souris faiblement. Je ne lui réponds rien. Je sais qu'il va partir, alors que, lui, l'ignore encore.
~ Philippe Besson
Depuis, il n'y a pas un jour où je n'ai regretté ce baiser que je ne lui ai pas donné. « Bonne route... » m'a-t-elle dit. Ce furent ses derniers mots. Et ce sont mes petits trésors. Je les ai encore dans l'oreille, intacts, et je les fais jouer chaque soir. Bonne route... Je n'ai plus son visage, mais j'ai sa voix, je le jure.
~ Philippe Claudel
When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.
~ Lee Unkrich
It's like when a guy gets a divorce from his wife. You part ways. That's what I did with The Beach Boys.
~ Brian Wilson
I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.
~ Billy Crystal
Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In the end, everyone loses everyone.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Hilarious! he said. It is! I never heard from her again! Oh, well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer