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Quotes About Farewell

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
With every death, a world is disappearing.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.
~ Allison Joseph
That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.
~ Annie Fellows Johnston
One last look at Athena, and then let the disgrace be complete.
~ Philip Roth
It was all remarkable. Good-bye, remarkable. Egypt and Greece good-bye, and good-bye, Rome!
~ Philip Roth
The last kiss is given to the void.
~ Philip Roth
They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
~ Philippa Gregory
I think it is unkind of me to stand there with my hands by my sides and a frown on my face. But I let him go without a blown kiss, without a blessing, without a command to come back safely. I let him go without a word or a gesture of love, for he is going out to fight for my enemy and so he is my enemy now.
~ Philippa Gregory
This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall go to him. Go then, he said. Kiss our baby good-bye before you go, and Henry. I shall tell Catherine that you left your blessing for her. And kiss me farewell. For if you go into that courtroom you will never come out alive.
~ Philippa Gregory
Mas, entre nós, nunca houve tempo para as palavras de amor; a maior parte do nosso tempo foi gasta em despedidas.
~ Philippa Gregory
I have to tell you, you have to know: I have loved you honorably as a knight should do his lady, and I have loved you passionately as a man might a woman; and now, before I leave you, I want to tell you that I love you, I love you—
~ Philippa Gregory
never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so
~ Philippa Gregory
We could all write a farewell note to Mom and Dad, and tell them to give our possessions to the orphans, said Caroline, her voice trembling dramatically.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Be right back," Jake told her. Wally said nothing. He was thinking how their last words to her would be "Be right back," and twenty years later they'd get out of prison.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
C'est totalement absurde les rappels . Enfin, écoutez, dans la vie normale, dans la vie courante, quand un type a fini son boulot, qu'est-ce qu'il fait ? Il dit au revoir, et il s'en va. Voilà. Il ne revient pas : enfin, on n'imagine pas un plombier, par exemple, re-sonnant à la porte, après avoir réparé une fuite, juste pour refiler un petit coup de clé de douze.
~ Unknown
ADIEU The glimmer farther away than the head The heart-skip On the slope where the air rolls its voice The spokes of the wheel the sun in the rut At the crossroads near the embankment a prayer Some words that are not heard Nearer the sky And on its steps the last square of light (Adieu)
~ Pierre Reverdy
Be of good cheer, then, my dear Crito, and say that you are burying my body only
~ Plato
Andrè fu il primo a partire, mentre parlava, a metà di una frase, come si spegne una candela.
~ Primo Levi
Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.
~ Rachel Caine
It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don't mean what you say. It's pure selfishness that you want to keep me here.
~ Rachel Caine
Hello again, I said to death. I was resigned, if not ready.
~ Rachel Caine
Good-bye, Da. Go to hell. I hope I'm not there waiting.
~ Rachel Caine
I made the mistake of turning back to look at her one last time before I left the room. It was heartbreaking, really—she just sat there, stunned. She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.
~ Rachel Cohn