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Quotes About Farewell

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.
~ Wilson Rawls
Good riddance to that wuthering height.
~ Winston Churchill
Every menu is an obituary.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell...it's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse
~ Yann Martel
I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
~ Yann Martel
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
~ Yann Martel
What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
~ Yann Martel
That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
~ Yann Martel
He wasn't a romantic. Had never thought himself as sentimental. But he wanted this one last kiss. "Well", he said, his voice hoarse and grainy, "we'll always have Peru.
~ Cindy Gerard
I ask: will she ever someday know love's farewell? Will she ever someday know the swoonings of love? Will she take in her own way the sweet journey? I know nothing. What can you do with the truth that everyone's a little sad and a little alone.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mas lembrar-se com saudade é como se despedir de novo.
~ Clarice Lispector
Adiós. No, quien viaja por la noche solo mira por la ventana y no dice adiós.
~ Clarice Lispector
Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep.
~ Clifford D. Simak
I had to leave Paris the next morning. As always I would wonder why and start counting the days before I could go back. And then lose count and be lost again in the life that, by some strange twist of fate, I lived somewhere else. Au revoir Paris. Bonjour tristesse.
~ Clive James
It is a sad farewell. You loved it all. You dream that you might keep it in your head But memories, where can you take them to? Take one last look at them. They end with you.
~ Clive James
You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly pray that a Merciful God will extend to you His blessing and protection. —ROBERT E. LEE IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
~ Unknown
There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last night on the island, just as they would have bidden farewell to a soul beginning the long journey towards eternity. There was almost no chance that anyone present would ever see the departed again
~ Unknown
I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy.
~ Colette
the overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but what's wrong with corny? It has its place.
~ Unknown
Of this bad world the loveliest and the bestHas smiled and said "Good Night," and gone to rest.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Every journey ends; terminates, at some pier, some mist-shrouded wharf, where torches are waiting.
~ Hilary Mantel
Far away can be too far away, when the wrong people are left behind.
~ Hilary McKay
I remembered... It was the colour of your hair. Farewell...Erza. ~I'm Jellal Fernandez. What about you, Erza?(I'm Erza. Just Erza.) Well, that's kind of sad. Ohh!(Hey...What are you doing?!)It's such a pretty scarlet colour...I know! We'll give you the last name of Scarlet!(Erza...Scarlet) It's the colour of you hair! Nobody will ever forget that!~(Jellal...)
~ Hiro Mashima
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.
~ Holly Black