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Quotes About Parting

Separation secures manifest friendship
~ Indian proverb
Sleep, how soon I too shall be sent— For your sake— my dearest, my damnable.
~ Irina Ratushinskaya
door. "I'll let you know what's happening." "Do that," Beth said absently, her gaze fixed on Sam. "'Bye, Kendra." Kendra paused at the front door, looking back at them. So different. Beautiful, intelligent Beth, who
~ Iris Johansen
I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.
~ Isak Dinesen
G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
~ Dakota Fanning
Parting is not an ending. Life is just the path ahead, so sometimes you leave things behind you.' 'No sentiment,' said Ezra. 'It was a journey and we walked it.
~ Dan Abnett
This last mute touch that lingers is farewell.
~ Dana Gioia
In the best goodbyes, there's always the feeling that there's something more to say.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Closing his eyes, he saw every smile that Rebecca had ever directed his way and knew a pang of regret. He would have liked to have held her in his arms one last time before he died.
~ Lorraine Heath
For the last time they walked side by side to the gate, speaking not a word, as though too much remained to be said and so little time remained to say it.
~ Lorraine Heath
When my death us do part Then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again, Or will it be, as always was, too late?
~ Unknown
This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
~ Louise Bagshawe
Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough.
~ Louise Bogan
Goodbye, goodbye! There was so much to love, I could not love it all; I could not love it enough. — Louise Bogan, from "After the Persian," The Blue Estuaries: Poems: 1923-1968 . (Farrar, Straus and Giroux October 31, 1995) Originally published November 1st 1974.
~ Louise Bogan
Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.
~ Luanne Rice
You - my life - my All - farewell. Oh, go on loving me - never doubt the faithfullest heart Of your beloved L Ever thine Ever mine Ever ours.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
I do not have the money anymore. It was all yours, after all. I slipped the check into the silk lining of the coffin when I kissed you good-bye for the last time.
~ Jodi Picoult
But he was giving her back her heart, so that when he left her life, there would be no strings attached.
~ Jodi Picoult
No matter how many times you let someone go, it never got any easier.
~ Jodi Picoult
Si le das el corazón a alguien y luego muere, ¿se lo lleva consigo?
~ Jodi Picoult
When Thomas left, it was with the feeling of a summer romance—a trinket that I could take out and examine for the rest of my life, the same way I might save a seashell from a beach vacation or the ticket from my first Broadway musical.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm screwed, Eric repeats, and shakes his head. I have to go. Take care of her, okay? He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. I always do, I say.
~ Jodi Picoult