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Quotes About Farewell

What anguish gushes from the heart The quivering lip will tell, When "two fond souls" are call'd to part And far from each other dwell.
~ Samuel Woodhull, 1851
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
~ Author Unknown
The saddest three words in the English language: "Rest in peace."
~ Pelican, 1939
All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.
~ H. V. Morton
Farewell, brave boys, may your guns always salute friends and terrify enemies.
~ Hampton Sides
Then they kissed each other, and the young girl wept, and gave him a rose but before she gave it to him she pressed a kiss upon it, a kiss so tender and impassioned that the rose spread its petals.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Even so, beloved Eva! fair star of thy dwelling! Thou art passing away; but they that love thee dearest know it not.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Adiós, querida niña! Las brillantes puertas eternas se han cerrado a tus espaldas; no veremos más tu dulce rostro. ¡Ay de los que hemos visto tu entrada en el cielo, cuando despertemos para encontramos a solas con las nubes grises de la vida cotidiana, pues tú te has marchado para siempre!».
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Yes, I know you do! There isn't one of you that hasn't always been very kind to me; and I want to give you something that, when you look at, you shall always remember me, I'm going to give all of you a curl of my hair; and, when you look at it, think that I loved you and am gone to heaven, and that I want to see you all there.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I have a kind of farewell lunch with Burnett in Carmarthen. A greasy spoon café just up behind the police station. The sort of place where the laminated menus stick slightly to the tables. Where lasagne represents the most adventurous meal choice.
~ Harry Bingham
I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
I'll come back to George Washington just long enough to say goodbye to him. He was a great man and a good man, and when his work was over as our great first president, he went back home to Virginia for his long-earned rest. Just three years later, on December 14, 1799, at the age of sixty-seven, he went to his final rest. As
~ Harry Truman
It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go;It's a long way to Tipperary, to the sweetest girl I know!Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell, Leicester Square,It's a long, long way to Tipperary, but my heart's right there!
~ Harry Williams
One last dance, my lady, before I am never to see you again?
~ Heather Dixon
Sometimes you don't know you'll miss a place until you're gone.
~ Heather Henson
We see our friends are round us falling. We see them buried deep in dust. In solemn silence yet they're calling. Prepare for death, for die you must. -Zee
~ Leander Watts
The nature of things dictates that we must leave those dear to us. Everything born contains its own cessation
~ Lee Gutkind
God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.
~ Lee Smith
Bye bye doggie.
~ Lemony Snicket
Toodle-oo, orphans!" Shirley said. Klaus looked at Shirley and waved back as Violet and Sunny led him by the hand out of the waiting room. "How could you wave to her?" Violet hissed to her brother, as they walked back down the hallway. "She seems like a nice lady," Klaus said, frowning. "I know I've met her somewhere before.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.
~ Lemony Snicket
You made me cry When you said goodbye Isn't that a shame My tears fell like rain Isn't that a shame You're the one to blame
~ lennon john iv
Three days afterwards the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrey went to the steps of the tomb to take his last farewell of her. Even in the coffin the face was the same, though the eyes were closed. "Ah, what have you done to me?" it still seemed to say.
~ Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy