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Quotes About Parting

I'll marry you, mind you, in an hour. As we were? As we were. But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end. We shall never be again as we were!
~ Henry James
I sat and talked with Alexandros in the deaf and dumb language of the heart. In a few minutes, I would have to go. I was not unhappy about it; there are experiences so wonderful, so unique, that the thought of prolonging them seems like the basest form of ingratitude. If I were not to go now then I should stay forever, turn my back on the world, renounce everything
~ Henry Miller
I was given an eight-foot painting on a luminous yellow background as a parting gift when leaving Paris in 2008. I did not dare take it with me to N.Y.C. and understood that the cost of shipping would have far outweighed the cost of the work.
~ Alexander Gilkes
today my heart was ripped in twoone half for me, one half for you take a half and keep it neari have mine and will always be here crossing paths before the endonce a lover, forever a friend
~ Connor Franta, Note to Self
I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?
~ Lisa Gilbert
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
~ Walter Cronkite
I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.
~ Satpal Maharaj
It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.
~ Michel Faber
He turned away and offered his hand in parting. She didn't take it or say anything. But from where I was behind the door I could see her face through the crack. I pitied her to see how deathly pale that sweet little face had gone. Hearing no answer, Pechorin took a few steps towards the door. He was trembling, and I might say I think he was fit to do what he'd threatened as a joke. That's the sort of man he was, there was no knowing him.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
My heart was tightening painfully, as it had after our first parting. Oh, how I was glad of this feeling! Could it be that youth wishes to return to me with its wholesome storms, or is this only its departing glance, its last gift, as a keepsake . . . ?
~ Mikhail Lermontov
You are beautiful, he said, But I will have to leave you.
~ Milan Kundera
Con su muerte, terminó la dulce soledad compartida por los dos.
~ Milan Kundera
What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.
~ Nora Roberts
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."
~ Walter Scott
When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
~ William Shakespeare
There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.
~ Clive Barker
...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together
~ Daniel Handler
Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye
~ Faraaz Kazi
I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.
~ Kim Sowol
Love means never saying goodbye.
~ Harley
She came at once, after saying pleasantly to Mr Renfield: 'Good-bye, and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to yourself', to which, to my astonishment, he replied: 'Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. May He bless and keep you!
~ Bram Stoker
Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted.
~ Bram Stoker