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Quotes About Parting

We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what." Dr. Finch smiled. "Well, we know now. I'm just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn't talk to you the way I'm talking—" "Why not, sir?" "You wouldn't have listened to him. You couldn't have listened. Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level.
~ Harper Lee
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
~ Haruki Murakami
And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.
~ Haruki Murakami
Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
~ Haruki Murakami
People leave strange little memories behind when they die.
~ Haruki Murakami
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
Grasping the doorknob, Tengo turned around one last time and was shocked to see a single tear running down from his father's eye. It shone a dull silver color under the ceiling's fluorescent light. To release that tear, his father must have squeezed every bit of strength from what little emotion he still had left.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'll never forget you, I said. I could never forget you.
~ Haruki Murakami
Like two straight lines overlapping, we momentarily crossed at a certain point, then went our separate ways.
~ Haruki Murakami
Wenn zwei voneinander scheiden, So so geben sie sich die Händ Und fangen an zu weinen, Und seufzen ohne End. Wir haben nicht geweinet, Wir seufzten nicht Weh und Ach! Die Tränen und die Seufzer, Die kamen hintennach.
~ Heinrich Heine
It's so hard saying goodbye... it's hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.
~ Saqib Saleem
Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
~ Socrates
And now, until we meet again, may the blessings of Asgard be showered upon you!
~ Stan Lee
I got on the elevator without giving him the chance to kiss me. We stood across from each other, two sad people in a situation that couldn't be fixed. I waited for the door to slide shut between us.
~ Stephanie Lehmann
Good-bye, Harry.
~ Michael Connelly
I'm sorry, kitten. It'll all be over soon." I managed to say between sobs. "Meow." The kitten said. "Goodbye.
~ Michael Crow
you." "Likewise." They shake hands, head back to the elevator. Groff
~ Michael Cunningham
Forever and forever, farewell, John Milholland / If we do meet again, why, we shall smile / If not, why then, this parting was well made": lines spoken by Brutus to Cassius in act 5, scene 1, of Julius Caesar. He aced the test.
~ Michael Lewis
The Irish people and their country are like lovers whose passion is heightened by their suspicion that they will probably wind up leaving each other.
~ Michael Lewis
I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me. There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. (Substitutions)
~ Michael Marshall Smith
This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.
~ Abbi Glines
Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face. "If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.
~ James Dashner