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Quotes About Farewell

But it's always easier for those who go to new places than it is for those who are left behind
~ Alison Weir
Despairs! Ten years' animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time! Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.
~ Allison Bechdel
That's the downside of bringing one clan into contact with another: by the time that everyone has been introduced, it's practically time to go home.
~ Allison Pearson
t's all going … Darkness is gathering me into its arms. Farewell wife, children, family, the things of my heart … Farewell me, cherished me, now so hazy, so indistinct...
~ Alphonse Daudet
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Good-bye — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia.
~ Ambrose Bierce
She wished she had better words. Ones that somehow bound up all he'd been to her. All the things felt but never said. All the holes he'd leave behind. But how can you fit all that in a bit of breath? 'By
~ Joe Abercrombie
Dosvedanya, Bitches!"
~ Joe DeBoard
Sooner or later a black car came for everyone.
~ Joe Hill
He watched until Danny passed through the gates, turned left, and disappeared from sight. Jude never saw him again.
~ Joe Hill
There's nothing to be afraid of. We're just saying goodbye.
~ Joe Kelly
And now,"she said, raising her hand for a cab, "your wish has been granted. You may go home and forget I ever existed."A taxi swung up to the curb. "Whatever happens next is not on your conscience." "Wait,"I said. "Gobi . . ." She leaned forward, kissing me briefly on the mouth. "Au revoir, Perry." "Wait,"I said. But she didn't. She climbed into the taxi. She didn't look back.
~ Joe Schreiber
I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.
~ Joey Comeau
Yesterday, when I took leave she seized me by the hand, and said, "Adieu, dear Werther." Dear Werther! It was the first time she ever called me dear: the sound sunk deep into my heart. I have repeated it a hundred times; and last night, on going to bed, and talking to myself of various things, I suddenly said, "Good night, dear Werther!" and then could not but laugh at myself.
~ Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
~ Yann Martel
It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
~ Yann Martel
It is infamy to die, and not be missed.
~ Carlos Wilcox
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
~ Delmore Schwartz
I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
~ Taylor Caldwell
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
~ Mark Doty
Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Come on up, boys -I'm dead.
~ Dylan Thomas
Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?
~ Dylan Thomas