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Quotes About Farewell

My master and his friends continued on the shore till I was almost out of sight; and I often heard the sorrel nag (who always loved me) crying out, "Hnuy illa nyha, majah Yahoo;" "Take care of thyself, gentle Yahoo.
~ Jonathan Swift
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Si para todo hay término y hay tasa y última vez y nunca más y olvido ¿quién nos dirá de quién en esta casa, sin saberlo, nos hemos despedido?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Es trágica la entraña del adiós, como de todo acontecer en que es notorio el tiempo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Decirse adiós es negar la separación, es decir: Hoy jugamos a separarnos pero nos veremos mañana. Los hombres inventaron el adiós porque se saben de algún modo inmortales, aunque se juzguen contingentes y efímeros.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The truth is that we all live by leaving behind
~ Jorge Luis Borgesis Borges
When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.
~ Joseph Boyden
Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
~ A. A. Milne
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
~ A. A. Milne
The end of a summer day; Sweet love dead.
~ A. Norman Jeffares
I attended the burial of all my rosy feelings:I performed the rites, simple and decisive.
~ A. R. Ammons
TTFN Ta Ta For Now!
~ A.A. Milne
How lucky am I to have something that makes saying good-bye so hard
~ A.A. Milne
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." ~ Alan Alexander Milne
~ A.A. Milne
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
~ A.E. Housman
years.' She kissed him good bye on the station platform, a long and passionate kiss. Now she was a civilian it did not matter if anyone saw them.
~ A.R. Davey
I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.
~ Abe Lemons
It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.
~ Abigail Thomas
I'll never see you again, but that's a note I tear up in my mind.
~ Ada Limón
Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.
~ Adam Young
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
~ Desmond Tutu
I felt like when I retired, I was still one of the best in the world and competing at the highest level. I think it's best to bow out and have people remember you at your peak.
~ Christian Cage
There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.
~ John Cena
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.
~ Luanne Rice