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Quotes About Farewell

Goodby Miss Kinnian and dr Strauss and evrybody ... P.S. please tel prof Nemur not to be such a grouch when pepul laff at him and he woud have more frends. Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard
~ Daniel Keyes
I put Algernon's body into a small metal container and took him home with me. I wasn't going to let them dump him into the incinerator. It's foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave.
~ Daniel Keyes
Before he could say any more or try to stop me, I was out of the lab, and I caught the elevator down and out of Beekman for the last time.
~ Daniel Keyes
The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.
~ Amy Jackson
There are no good-byes, wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Goodbye curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.
~ Juliet Marillier
When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.
~ Mary Roach
Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder. He said, 'I love you too, Hannah. He didn't last long after that. Death had become his friend. They say that people, if they want to, can let themselves slip away when the time comes. I think that is what Nathan did. He was not false or greedy. When the time came to go, he went.
~ Wendell Berry
The survivors of the old life come to pay their respects. The neighbors, old and young, come. People who have moved away, maybe a long time ago, come back. You see people you knew when you were young and now don't recognize, people who may never come back again, people you may never see again. We feel the old fabric torn, pulling apart, and we know how much we have loved each other.
~ Wendell Berry
The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
~ Wendy Mass
Goodbye, my mistress, I whispered. Farewell, my heart.
~ Wilbur Smith
It's not the dying but the manner of it.
~ Wilbur Smith
The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope.
~ Wilkie Collins
Even lawyers have hearts, and mine ached a little as I took leave of her.
~ Wilkie Collins
Perhaps I have dwelt too long already on the little story of our parting from home? I can only say, in excuse, that my heart is full of it; and what is not in my heart my pen won't write.
~ Wilkie Collins
The kind sorrowful eyes looked at me, for a moment, with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell. I felt the answering pang in my own heart—the pang that told me I must lose her soon, and love her the more unchangeably for the loss.
~ Wilkie Collins
It will be better for both of us Let me go.
~ Wilkie Collins
On his desk, when he died, there lay a paper on which he had written his last, and perhaps his most characteristic, sentences: "There is no conclusion. What has concluded that we might conclude in regard to it? There are no fortunes to be told and there is no advice to be given. Farewell.
~ Will Durant
He never saw Molly again.
~ William Gibson
En Mongolia perdió a sus padres. —Fezzik, hemos hecho por ti todo lo que hemos podido. Buena suerte —le dijeron, y se murieron.
~ William Goldman
All that had taken place in many years of life at Boranly-Burannyi junction, all this great strain over a long time, all the troubles, difficulties and joys he had lived through - all this had to be expressed in a few words of farewell in the few minutes of laying to rest. How much, yet how little, is given to a man!
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
But where love and sorrow bind people together, goodbyes are not so easily said. We were about to discover that.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Nabakumar sighs. 'Ma,' he says. Then he is gone.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni