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Quotes About Parting

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.
~ Marjane Satrapi
That morning was the last time I saw Moreland. It was also the last time I had, with anyone, the sort of talk we used to have together. Things drawing to a close, even quite suddenly, was hardly a surprise.
~ Anthony Powell
These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.
~ Anthony Trollope
CHAPTER LXVI 'I MUST GO
~ Anthony Trollope
Van hoeveel kun je afscheid nemen voor leven ophoudt leven te zijn?
~ Arnon Grunberg
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
And the thread of her happiness was no stronger than the clasp of her fingers on his coat, no longer than this last mile of their journey.
~ Shirley Hazzard
In short, he kept waiving me such waivers that I waved goodbye to him and went to see a third lawyer, that's where I went.
~ Sholom Aleichem
When the cow goes to pasture," says my mother, "it forgets to say good-bye.
~ Sholom Aleichem
I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling. I resolutely avoided bores, saw only those who amused me. We spent afternoons taking long walks, nights drinking and talking, and then we would leave each other, never to meet again, and there were no regrets. How simple life was. No regrets, no obligations, my acts and gestures counted for nothing, no one asked my advice, and I knew no other rule but my whims.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Comprendí en seguida que formaban parte de los placeres de los viajes las amistades sin futuro y el leve desgarramieto de las despedidas.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;
~ Sophocles
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
~ George Eliot
Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. "Well, look at that." I studied my free wrist. "Denied. Good-bye
~ Ilona Andrews
This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
~ Louise Bagshawe, Glamour
You say good-bye, and you think you'll be free. But I'll be awaiting you, in your final destiny.
~ Haidji, SG - Suicide Game
There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.
~ Auliq Ice
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~ John Osborne
Leave me now as one leaves a corpse...with regret, and memories, but without a second look.
~ John Speed
I shall miss you,' said Perley. 'Of course I shall miss you, Maverick. So should I miss the piano, if it were taken out of the parlor.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps