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Quotes About Farewell

It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
~ Sarah Dessen
See you guys later. I'm going to drop Huntsman off at the
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Good-bye," he says. "Bring back the lamp." Not going to happen, mister.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Angelica,' said Harry, 'you're unique. I can't think of another female who would stage a farewell scene in a situation like this. In fact, in all my experience--' 'Stretching over many nations and five continents?' 'You know,' said Harry after a moment, 'if you don't get rid of that habit of quoting, people will start to think you might be intelligent.' 'Or,' said Angelica levelly, 'that I'm hiding a heart behind the cynicism.
~ Sarah Rayne
Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don't part friends?
~ Saul Bellow
The forecast is we kiss goodbye and never hello all kisses are then parting kisses
~ Saul Williams
Fuzzy Tally is no more.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.
~ Johanna Spyri
You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
~ John Adams
Washington's Farewell Address was not read aloud before an audience. Instead of delivering the news like a European king, he delivered it directly to the American people through one of the 100 newspapers in the nation. He
~ John Avlon
Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
~ John Banville
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
~ John Berger
Who does not know what it is like to go with a friend to a railway station and then to watch the train take them away? As you walk along the platform back into the city, the person who has just gone is often more there, more totally there, than when you embraced them before they climbed into the train. When we embrace to say goodbye, maybe we do it for this reason—to take into our arms what we want to keep when they've gone.
~ John Berger
I myself walked at the funeral of tenderness.
~ John Berryman
Goodbye, sir, & fare well. You're in the clear.
~ John Berryman
He rose, and he put down The Yellow Book.He staggered—and, terrible-eyed,He brushed past the palms on the staircaseAnd was helped to a hansom outside.
~ John Betjeman
Heil Hitler ," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.
~ John Boyne
I will never come back, and if I do there will be nothing left, there will be nothing left but the headstones to record what has happened; there will really be nothing at all.
~ John Cheever
I once knew a word I forget That mean "I am sorry we met And I wish you the same." It sounds like your name But I haven't remember that yet.
~ John Ciardi
Now that it's time to leave, I'm not sure I wan to go.
~ John Connolly
A little fragment of his heart came loose and was lost to him each time he had to say goodbye to her.
~ John Connolly
My pal is dead.
~ John Connolly
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss,Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
~ John Donne
Rogers's closing signature, encompassing his Christian ideals and his belief in the Golden Rule, became a radio classic: "Goodbye, good luck, and may the good Lord take a likin' to ya.
~ John Dunning