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Quotes About Farewell

I never said to you: come back. Each time that you left forever, I lowered my head and looked at your left hand, I looked at the white carpet in front of the divan on which we were sitting, I didn't say the word, there is no circumstance, then I raised my eyes and looked out the window at the world that was moving away with the solemn slow pace of an ocean liner
~ Helene Cixous
I've learned that moving away from my closest friends was much, much harder to do than I ever thought it would be.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
On the night before the wedding, when Chips left the house to return to his hotel, she said, with mock gravity: This is an occasion, you know--this last farewell of ours. I feel rather like a new boy beginning his first term with you. Not scared, mind you--but just, for once, in a thoroughly respectful mood. Shall I call you 'sir'--or would 'Mr. Chips' be the right thing? 'Mr. Chips,' I think. Good-bye, then--good-bye, Mr. Chips. . . .
~ James Hilton
Goodbye, Mr. Chips!' was first submitted by James Hilton to the British Weekly in 1933, but it came to prominence when it was printed as the leading article of The Atlantic in April 1934.
~ James Hilton
Sometimes we have to let go of the ones we love with nothing but love.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Hello loneliness my old friend. I've come to say goodbye. They broke me in an unexpected way, with that hug.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Farewell, world, with all thy miseries; for comforts or enjoyments hast thou none! Farewell, woman, whom I have despised and shunned; and man, whom I have hated; whom, nevertheless, I desire to leave in charity! And thou, sun, bright emblem of a far brighter effulgence, I bid farewell to thee also! I do not now take my last look of thee, for to thy glorious orb shall a poor suicide's last earthly look be raised.
~ James Hogg
We'll meet again, we'll part once more.
~ James Joyce
Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when the moment of farewell had come the kiss, which had been withheld by one, was given by both.
~ James Joyce
For all their faults. I am passing out. O bitter ending! I'll slip away before they're up. They'll never see. Nor know. Nor miss me.
~ James Joyce
A headland, a ship, a sail upon the billows. Farewell. A lovely girl, her veil awave upon the wind upon the headland, wind around her.
~ James Joyce
her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.
~ James Joyce
All insanity. Patriotism, sorrow for the dead, music, future of the race. To be or not to be. Life's dream is o'er. End it peacefully. They can live on. (He gazes far away mournfully.) I am ruined. A few pastilles of aconite. The blinds drawn. A letter. Then lie back to rest. (He breathes softly.) No more. I have lived. Fare. Farewell.
~ James Joyce
She thanked them for their letters, promised that they would be archived at the Kennedy Library, and said all the usual niceties one might expect a widow in her position to say. Then she caught viewers off guard with an emotional and revealing statement. In the middle of her remarks, she paused and said: "All his bright light gone from the world.
~ James L. Swanson
No, I ain't wanted there, I don't like it there, I ain't coming in there . . . Good-bye.
~ James Lee Burke
One last thing, Vice Admiral," Vader said as Rancit was being escorted aft down the walkway. "Moff Tarkin sends his regards.
~ James Luceno
If I ever see you again, I'll send your ass hooting and hollering out my damn door.
~ James McBride
But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
~ James Patterson
Death is nature's way of saying "howdy." Statues
~ James Patterson
troubled. I hope I'm wrong. But I really need to run along. It was nice meeting you, Graham." [Editor's
~ James Patterson
the strands fell through his fingers. "I have to go," he said softly.
~ James Patterson
I'm the first of us to go. Don't you dare argue with me. ~ Nana Mama
~ James Patterson
What was good, and what was ill, What would save life, and what would kill. Thus gone, amongst you I may live, And dead, yet speak and counsel give. Farewell, my birds, farewell, adieu, I happy
~ James Patterson
most folks around here said, 'Good riddance.
~ James Patterson