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Quotes About Parting

There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police Station.
~ Catherine Aird, Parting Breath
Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye
~ Wild Bill Hickok
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.
~ Charles Dickens
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
~ Karl Marx
With my last breath, I'll exhale my love for you. I hope it's a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.
~ Jarod Kintz
Goodbyes, they often come in waves.
~ Jarod Kintz
tried to give you a nice send-off, Mallory. I made my seafood salad. I hung up streamers. Ted and I even put together a severance package. A month's pay. We were going to surprise you with a check tomorrow morning.
~ Jason Rekulak
Then we leave together,' he whispered. Just that, nothing else. And for the first time since they met, Scythe cried.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
~ Dylan Thomas
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
~ E.M. Forster
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
~ Earnest Hemingway
In death they were alone with their love.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.
~ Edith Wharton
He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.
~ Edith Wharton
When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness - as if the tearing asunder of the flesh must turn at last into a disembodied anguish.
~ Edith Wharton
She hugged him, then kissed him. Then she was gone. He never saw her again.
~ Alastair Reynolds
May I look on you when my last hour comes; may I hold you, as I sink, with my failing hand.
~ Albius Tibullus
irse, y no volver.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Amatevi come compagni di viaggio, con questo pensiero d'avere a lasciarvi, e con la speranza di ritrovarvi per sempre.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had." I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.
~ Alex Flinn
but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her
~ Alex Flinn