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Quotes About Parting

That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku—he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death.
~ Donna Tartt
A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku—he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms, on the way to death.' " He
~ Donna Tartt
He said, 'You have everything there is of me, save a little I gave to my people. Now you hold that as well.' And last of all, when he had released her and moved to the door, to stand outside where the sky was enclosed with thick hills and dark, heavy forests, he said, because he could not prevent himself, 'When next you stand by the sea, say goodbye for me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
How do you take leave, for all time, of a brother?" "You wish him well," Lymond said, "if that is what is in your mind. And you accept from him his understanding, and his pity, and his fellowship as he is driven, as you are, through the world.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He and Richard had met on the strand at Philorth and like the sand under their feet, all the muddled solicitude which had prompted that journey had in five minutes dispersed through their fingers.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
So long and thanks for all the fish. In
~ Douglas Adams
Waga tomo yasurakani", he said. Farewell, my friend.
~ Douglas Preston
It's true, these last few years I've lived watching myself in the act of loss—the art of losing, Elizabeth Bishop called it, but for me no art only badly-done exercises acts of the heart forced to question its presumptions in this world its mere excitements acts of the body forced to measure all instincts against pain acts of parting trying to let go without giving up yes Elizabeth a city here a village there a sister, comrade, cat and more no art to this but anger
~ Adrienne Rich
All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never, perhaps, to see each other again.
~ Agatha Christie
And yet it lends itself to romance, my friend. All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these people, these strangers to one another, are brought together. They sleep and eat under one roof, they cannot get away from each other. At the end of three days they part, they go their several ways, never, perhaps, to see each other again.
~ Agatha Christie
Charles doesn't go out of a room—he 'makes an exit
~ Agatha Christie
Elvis has left the building.
~ Al Dvorin
Qué afortunado soy de tener algo de lo que cuesta tanto despedirse», Winnie the Pooh
~ Alan Alexander Milne
saying she was leaving him—and I buried
~ Rachel Lee
Is it always this miserable saying goodbye?
~ Rachel Robinson
she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.
~ Rachel Simon
I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat. "Ow!" he screamed. Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me." "Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson." He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely." "Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.
~ Rachel Vail
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goodbye don't mean gone.
~ Ray Charles
If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose, If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you, If you don't get drunk on my kiss, If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done. Let's not drag this on, Consider me gone...
~ Reba McEntire
There's a million was of saying words that mean you won't be staying. But couldn't we just skip the bye-ing? We could stay and keep on hi-ing!
~ Rebecca Doughty
To say good-bye is to die a little.
~ Raymond Chandler
The room was suddenly full of heavy silence, like a fallen cake. I went on out, parting the silence as if I was pushing my way through water.
~ Raymond Chandler
To say goodbye is to die a little" - The Long Goodbye
~ Raymond Chandler