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Quotes About Farewell

I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.
~ Eric Halvorsen
A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.
~ Shelby Foote
Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.
~ Alexandre Dumas
O grande ville! c' est dans ton sein palpitant que j'ai trouve ce que je cherchais; mineur patient, j'ai remue tes entrailles pour en faire sortir le mal; maintenant, mon oeuvre est accomplie, ma mission est terminee; maintenant tu ne peux plus m'ofrir ni joies ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris,! adieu!
~ Alexandre Dumas
remember that it is the dead alone with whom we are not likely to meet again on this earth.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Delays only double grief when one has to part ...
~ Alexandre Dumas
Nu plânge, Maria! zise regele. Ne vom întâlni acolo, sus... Din lumea asta nu te regret decât pe tine. Dac? te-aÈ™ putea lua cu mine aÈ™ fi fericit c? mor. C?l?toria la cer e mult mai frumoas? decât cea din Italia. ?i apoi, mi se pare c? f?r? mine, n-ai s? mai fii fericit?. Te vor face s? suferi... ÎÈ›i va fi frig, vei fi singur?; te vor ucide, draga mea! Asta m? nec?jeÈ™te mai mult decât moartea!
~ Alexandre Dumas
maintenant tu ne peux plus m'offrir ni joies, ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris ! adieu !
~ Alexandre Dumas
Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Paid the last debt of nature
~ Alexandre Dumas
He opened his eyes for an instant. Other people were writing and melting, but my brother stopped his flight long enough to look at me. An instant that would have to last forever. And then the flames rose higher and my brother was gone.
~ Alice Hoffman
Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.
~ Alice Hoffman
He knew that attachments were for the living, and so he did the honorable thing. He let her go. He leaned close so she would hear him say it was all right for her to leave him. They knew it was now; they could feel something shift the way it always did. Even Argus, who'd been whimpering, grew quiet. It was not a dream, but something more. She breathed out, and inside that one breath was every word that had been spoken, every step she had taken, everyone she had ever loved.
~ Alice Hoffman
He had felt the same sort of aloneness once again when Maria told him to leave;
~ Alice Hoffman
I would watch his footprints when he went and mourn him before he was gone.
~ Alice Hoffman
But now he had been forced to learn many skills; how to fix a roof, how to cook, how to steal, how to say goodbye.
~ Alice Hoffman
Our Mary Rose," he said, and kissed her head, as if he were bidding her a fond farewell. She laughed. There could be worse lives than this lonely one. There could be life married to someone like George.
~ Alice McDermott
Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if I were a ship with their hope on it, dropping down over the horizon.
~ Alice Munro
You don't notice the dead leaving when they really hoose to leave you. You're not meant to. At most you feel them as a whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down.
~ Alice Sebold
y vi, mientras Samuel daba el atrevido paso de besar a Lindsey delante de toda la familia, que emprendían por fin el vuelo, alejándose de mi muerte.
~ Alice Sebold
I wish I had known enough to do the same...tell her I loved her on that last day.
~ Alice Sebold
I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.
~ Alice Walker
I dread parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.
~ Alice Walker
One day she say to me, Well, Miss Celie, I believe it time for me to go. When? I ast. Early next month, she say. June. June a good time to go off into the world.
~ Alice Walker