Quotes About Goodbye

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay.

Some things are not meant to be forever. They are just meant to get us there. Every friendship, every job, every place we live, is just a bridge to learning something we need in order to become who we are to be. People leave us because their part in our journey is finished. We never complete anything without having a lesson to be learned. Good-byes always leave us with a piece missing, don't they? Change is always difficult.

Good riddance. After all, it's not as if the jerk had done me any favors recently. Well, he'd washed my clothes and bought me two breakfasts (like a Hobbit). There was that. But he'd also dragged me into a Battle of the Sexes that should have been over and done with a good thirty years ago, all because he needed a warm body to fill a slot.

He held up his suitcase. "I've never had much to leave behind," he said.

Bye, Bye, Miss American PieDrove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dryThem good old boys were drinkin'Whiskey and RyeSingin' this'll be the day that I dieThis'll be the day that I die

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

Denn es geht nicht um das, was man mitnimmt, sondern um das, was man zurücklässt. (Violet)

What would I have said to him if I'd know I would never see him again?

Now she's gone and not just for a few days but forever. How can something so final happen in an instant? No preparation. No warning. No chance to do all the things you planned to do. No chance to say goodbye.

My friend Doggie was gone, and I never even got a chance to say good-bye to him for keeps.

You never know the last time you'll see a place. A person.

My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye. Because after I write in my letter, I'm not longer consumed by my all-consuming love...My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.

I couldn't even be mad at him, because this was who he was. This was who he'd always been. He'd never lied about that. He gave and then he took away. I felt it in the pit of my stomach, the familiar ache, that lost, regretful feeling only he could give me. I never wanted to feel it again. Never, ever. Maybe this was why I came, so I could really know. So I could say good-bye.

But I loved that house, and I hated to say good-bye. Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.

And i'm certain, i'm so suddenly certain that everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be, that I don't have to be afraid of good-bye; because good-bye doesn't have to be forever.

They're not love letters in the strictest sense of the word. My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye. Because after I write my letter, I'm no longer consumed by my all-consuming love.

I thought I was over him. When I wrote my letter, when I said my goodbyes, I mean it, I swear I did. It wasn´t even that hard, not really.

It's the good-byes that are hard.

And I'm certain, I'm so suddenly certain that everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be, that I don't have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn't have to be forever.

Y estoy segura, repentinamente segura, de que todo es de la manera en que se suponía que debía de ser, que no tengo que tener tanto miedo de las despedidas, porque las despedidas no tienen que ser para siempre.

I blink. "So you're leaving for good, then?" "Not for good. Just for now.

You're going, so take this contract back.

And now she's off on a new adventure, and we wish her well.