Quotes About Farewell

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

In death they were alone with their love.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness - as if the tearing asunder of the flesh must turn at last into a disembodied anguish.

What's the use—when you will go back?" he broke out, a great hopeless How on earth can I keep you? crying out to her beneath his words.

The night before I left home, there was the wake in our kitchen as was the custom for anyone going so far away. The kitchen was full of people, two men left their flash lamps lit

Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, I'm leaving too, Sarge. Okay, he said, and I kept on walking.

dreamy instrumental of an old song called Dancing On The Ceiling. The party was breaking up now

She hugged him, then kissed him. Then she was gone. He never saw her again.

Nuestros saludos son despedidas: de muchas formas vivimos en el abandono -en a búsqueda de la inconsciencia- pero tal vez lo hacemos porque tenemos tan claro y tan presente que todo va a terminar. Si cada muerte es un apocalipsis en miniatura, porque el mundo termina para quien deja de existir y todo el tiempo hay alguien que muere... Alberto Chimal, del libro "Diarios del Fin del Mundo

May I look on you when my last hour comes; may I hold you, as I sink, with my failing hand.

Explicar con palabras de este mundo que partió de mí un barco llevándome.

Y si nos vamos anticipando de sonrisa en sonrisa hasta la última esperanza?

irse, y no volver.

Sabés lo que se siente al querer retener a quien quiere irse?

Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.

He's going to give me a farewell kiss, but what good is it to me now when he never did it before. I would have preferred kisses that began something, not kisses that end things.

Addio, casa ancora straniera, nella quale la mente si figurava un soggiorno tranquillo e perpetuo di sposa.

Ma il buon vescovo, non senza un certo risentimento, rispose: - sono mie anime, e forse non vedramo mai più la mia faccia; e non volete che gli abbracci?

So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had." I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.

His farewell feast shows that he possessed means, but we must not take for granted that they were dishonestly earned. This only we may safely say, that if the publican disciple had been covetous, the spirit of greed was now exorcised; if he had ever been guilty of oppressing the poor, he now abhorred such work.

What would you read to someone who was dying?" Annie Dillard had asked our class. She wanted this to be the standard for our work. There, at the memorial service for my friend, I thought of another: Dying, what stories would you tell?

FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS." PUBLIUS