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Quotes About Farewell

Goodbyes were like crossroads where the path divided, places where you could look back at what you were leaving behind yet glimpse the choices and possibilities that lay ahead. Goodbyes were hard because they meant change.
~ Lynn Austin
Goodbyes were like crossroads where the path divided, places where you could look back at what you were leaving behind yet glimpse the choices and possibilities that lay ahead.
~ Lynn Austin
Good-bye, ocean," said Alix. "This was the best time I ever had." "You always say that," said Jools. "It's always true," said Alix.
~ Lynne Rae Perkins
It's interesting that the original phrase in the late 1500s was "God be with Ye." The contraction of that phrase was "Goodbwye" which eventually became "goodbye."….. I wonder, when Jesus watched the rich young ruler walk away, what was the look in His eyes? I wonder, when Peter denied Jesus and abandoned Him just before Jesus went to the cross, what was the goodbye like?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.
~ Unknown
I would not be able to bear it, I thought. I would seize him, hold him to me. But I only embraced him a final time, pressing hard as if to set him into my skin. Then I watched him take his place among them, stand upon the prow, outlined against the sky. The light darted silver from the waves. I lifted my hand in blessing and gave my son to the world.
~ Madeline Miller
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.
~ Madeline Miller
Sometimes people say Good riddance! in so many words.
~ John Fowles
Gant abruptly stood and said, "Thank you for your time, Mr. Koane. I'll see myself out.
~ John Grisham
I'll see you on the other side.
~ John Grisham
Mary never saw Bothwell again.
~ John Guy
When you start sleeping somewhere you know will be the last place you'll get to make your home, that's when the future has a certain finality, too.
~ John Irving
in his farewell address, Greenspan did warn that 'History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums'.17 In that, he was certainly correct.
~ John Kay
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?
~ John Keats
From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.
~ John Knowles
When Angelo tugged these boots on this morning, tightened and tied the laces, he had no inkling they would be his funeral wear.
~ Unknown
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
~ John Milton
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
~ John Milton
It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.
~ Angela Ruggiero
I thought watching you leave was hard, but knowing you weren't coming back was harder.
~ Unknown
If all there's left to do is walk away, then baby I'm as gone as yesterday.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Every little lie you lie brings us closer to goodbye.
~ Unknown
Yeah, you're sorry. I'm sorry, everyone's sorry, but I can't do this anymore. I can't and I won't. I'm gone.
~ Unknown
I don't deseve this, I knew it all along. They all tried to warn me but I wanted to prove them wrong. In my hearts where you'll stay, but for now it's time for us to go our seperate ways.
~ Unknown