Quotes About Parting

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

Goodbye, sir, & fare well. You're in the clear.

I hid my love when young till I Couldn't bear the buzzing of a fly; I hid my life to my despite Till I could not bear to look at light: I dare not gaze upon her face But left her memory in each place; Where'er I saw a wild flower lie I kissed and bade my love good-bye.

I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many.

I couldn't weep here, any more than I could hope. Of course he couldn't stay: and much as I wanted him by me, I wanted even more that my friend have what he wanted for himself.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

When I died last, and dear, I dieAs often as from thee I go.

Stay, O sweet, and do not rise; The light that shines comes from thine eyes; The day breaks not, it is my heart, Because that you and I must part.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

She had come to the end with Brian, and there was only bittersweet nostalgia.

Often, it is this anguish of parting - the death of a loved one, the breaking apart of a deep relationship, even the growing up of our children - that propels us into the search for a reality that will never let us down; so this opening passage illustrates, through the experience of Maitreyi, the state of seriousness, of being shocked into alertness, that makes one ready to absorb spiritual insight.

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you. I felt a little as though a part of me was leaving tonight. You have grown so much to be a part of my life that it is empty without you.

There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

He wanted their worlds to pull apart and never rejoin.

You can dump him in a car. You can dump him in a bar. You can dump him here or there. You can dump him anywhere. You can dump him with a text. He should be your future ex.

Hasta la vista, baby.

Leven is eigenlijk niets anders dan afscheid nemen van leven. Dat is de kern van het leven, en liefde is afscheid nemen van liefde - het is allemaal één groot afscheidsfeest. Het was een mooi afscheidsfeest, maar ik moet nu naar huis, even uitslapen, de afwas doen van verleden week. Begrijp je?

When you have to go away from someone you love or vice-versa, whatever the reason, it really shatters your life.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.