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Quotes About Parting

I like parting shots; you can't take them seriously and they're often pretty funny.
~ Amy Hempel
And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will.
~ Amy Tan
And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will.
~ Amy Tan
There'd never been any closure. There hadn't even been good-byes.
~ Andrea Kane
Only in brief flashes does it come to us that we may never see someone again.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but they would be embarrassed, and neither would know what to say. They would go their separate ways. Who knew? Maybe that happened every day to people who'd once loved each other.
~ Ann Brashares
Oh, I just hate you," she cried. "You're going to have so much fun without me.
~ Ann M. Martin
We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
~ Samuel Johnson
ADIEU  (ADIEU')   adv.[from à Dieu, used elliptically for à Dieu je vous commende, used at the departure of friends.]The form
~ Samuel Johnson
They parted—ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can't wait to start never seeing you again.
~ Sandra Brown
died. But he couldn't take the
~ Sandra Brown
They're lucky, I said. I was already imagining our good-bye-we'd both cry, we'd have a good long hug, we'd say things we might be scared to say if we knew we had to look each other in the eye the next day. I don't know about that. I can be a pain. He laughed then, and bit into a donut. You might have noticed. I laughed, too. Might have.
~ Sara Zarr
I do not want leaving me to be easy.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.
~ Sarah Dessen
Oh, God, I said. No, it's Dexter, he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored. He glanced behind him, then back at me. I'll see you soon, he said, and grinned at me. Like hell, I replied
~ Sarah Dessen
I am, of course, a rogue. A rapscallion. A musician. I would bring her nothing but poverty, shame, and bruised shins from my flailing limbs. She is the better for our parting.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
~ Sarah Dessen
See you guys later. I'm going to drop Huntsman off at the
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Good-bye," he says. "Bring back the lamp." Not going to happen, mister.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I am not at all sorry to part with the rest of it. I am no longer to be held accountable for myself. I am grateful for that. I am in other hands, relieved of self determination, freedom canceled. Hooray for regular hours! And, for the supervision of the spirit! Long live regimentation.
~ Saul Bellow
Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don't part friends?
~ Saul Bellow
The forecast is we kiss goodbye and never hello all kisses are then parting kisses
~ Saul Williams
Yüce Tanr?m, bu dünyada sevdi?imiz her ?eyden ayr?lmak zorunda m?y?z ?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe