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Quotes About Goodbyes

The reunions are always joyous and the good byes bittersweet, everyone regretting they have so little time together. Thomas says that he doesn't know Vilalba very well because they usually just stay at the house for endless conversations, punctuated by laughter and complaints, long lunches and drawn-out dinners. He says that for him Spain is just people in his family who love one another, who eat and drink and cut each other off in conversation until night falls.
~ Philippe Besson
well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Hilarious! he said. It is! I never heard from her again! Oh, well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
~ Jude Watson
So let's say our bloody goodbyes, and then you can promise to remember me from my good old days. "I can't do that," Minho said.
~ James Dashner
People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again
~ James St. James
and it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.
~ Rachel Kushner
Airports and train stations are where you get to cry
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.
~ Jonathan Harnisch, Freak
Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.
~ Gayle Forman
There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Maybe Ruth thought we'd be spending hours talking about my future; maybe she thought she'd have a big influence on whether or not I changed my mind.But I kept a certain distance from her, just as I did from Tommy. We didn't really talk properly again at the Cottages, and before I knew it, I was saying my goodbyes
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Hildy has resigned herself to this, that life is a series of sudden disappearences, leavetakings without the proper good-byes. Someday she too might vanish. Some days she looks forward to learning this trick.
~ Kelly Link
She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Who'd have thought our tracks would cross again like this? where's the time got to? and why is life so full of goodbyes? as we part in the yard roosters are crowing in the trees and we cry a little drunk and happy tears threading our cheeks.
~ David Young
Leaving can't be nearly as hard as being left, Cam.
~ Ally Carter
I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?
~ Kay Cannon
BUT WHEN THE time for good-byes came, the scene erupted precisely as Laila had dreaded. Aziza panicked.
~ Khaled Hosseini
They each have their own journeys. It's hard to accept, but people leave us along the way. People don't always stay with us until the end of the story.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
each have their own journeys. It's hard to except, but people leave us along the way. People don't always stay with us until the end of the story...
~ Yasmine Galenorn
the most painful good-byes were the ones that were never said, never explained
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.
~ Janet Leigh
People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's not telling how long you will have them near. It's the good-byes that are hard.
~ Jenny Han
People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. There's no telling how long you will have them near... It's the goodbyes that are hard.
~ Jenny Han