Quotes About Goodbyes

The hardest goodbyes are the ones that were never said and never explained, the ones where the story wasn't over.

Laura Lee Hope

Then she was gone, and Violante was already missing her as the door closed. 'So?' she thought. 'Is there any feeling you understand better? Losing people and missing them -- that's what your life consists of.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos...

Atmospheres of light shine in your eyes and so my dear sun, I hear your cries as you melt the rain from our delicate skies with a love so great there can be no goodbyes.

I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.

But where love and sorrow bind people together, goodbyes are not so easily said. We were about to discover that.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn't enough sometimes.

Jim's departures were always uncomfortable.  

What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave,

To experience something for the last time can be more intense than it was the first.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

People left. They always did. There was no use getting his heart mixed up in something that was guaranteed to hurt.

I can't walk away from someone I love without saying 'I love you' one last time. I've known how very much I've loved you for a long time. You think I'm a child and I know nothing about the world or about love. But I know about love. I know about loss. And I know about loneliness, and goodbyes, and about never being able to voice those feelings again. "Perhaps you've said those words, Richard, and don't mean them. But I never have.

Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you've lost, what you have and what you took for granted.

After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand & falling in love. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made and sometimes goodbyes really are forever!

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

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.

Feelings don't walk away, people do...

Being on 'Corrie' is the best job I've ever had; leaving is going to break my heart.

Right now you can book three nights at Crest Hill at half price. This is a one-time offer and it's meant to introduce you to how differently we take care of your pet. We think once you see how eager your dog will be to join us, you'll feel better when you have to leave town. No more guilt. No more sad good-byes.

I could hear a gaggle of Americans, couples, laughing, saying their loud goodbyes as they parted for their respective rooms: old college friends, jobs in the financial sector, five-plus years of corporate law and Fiona entering the first grade in the fall, all's well in Oaklandia, well goodnight then, God we love you guys, a life I might have had myself except I didn't want it.