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Quotes About Farewell

to say good-bye. I wasn't there to tell her how much I
~ James Patterson
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
~ John Donne
The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away.
~ Josephine Preston Peabody
And then he was gone. Leaving nothing but the swish of the front door, and a mountain of possibilities in his wake.
~ Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens
Can you speak to the dead…like your sister?" Ms. Dupré's body seems to loosen, and her voice gets soft as a feather against your skin. "No, child. But you can say goodbye to someone even after he's gone. You just have to find a way that's right for you.
~ Thomas Fahy
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
~ Thomas Francis Meagher
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
~ Thomas Gray
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
~ Thomas Gray
Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
Is the child in that old photograph really an erstwhile version of you, your little hand waving farewell? The face of that child is nothing like the face you have now. That child's face is now melding with the blackness behind you, before you, around you. The child is waving and smiling and fading as your car keeps skidding toward your abruptly curtailed future. Bye-bye.
~ Thomas Ligotti
What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.
~ Thomas Mann
I'm scared of people leaving unexpectedly. It's cos of the way I died.
~ Thomas Morris
If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon and please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
~ Thomas Otway
And here, without anger or resentment, I bid you farewell. Sincerely wishing, that as men and Christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right, and be, in your turn, the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.
~ Thomas Paine
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
~ Thornton Wilder
Of all the cultures that have disappeared from the world, not a single farewell letter or suicide note has been unearthed.
~ Thorsten J. Pattberg
Everyone might as well say good-bye to them now, these two aren't coming back.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
It's always good to end a home series on a high note.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
Saying good-bye on 'Nurse Jackie' was a really big deal, so I'm sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.
~ Merritt Wever
The most lonely thing in the world is a soul when it is preparing to go on its far journey.
~ O. Henry
Go in peace. Mizpah." "Mizpah? I know what that means." "Tell me, son," he said, biting on his lower lip. "The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
~ Og Mandino
We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
~ Orson Scott Card
I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
~ Orson Scott Card