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Quotes About Farewell

Van hoeveel kun je afscheid nemen voor leven ophoudt leven te zijn?
~ Arnon Grunberg
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And it was difficult to imagine what answer Earth could possibly send, except a tactfully sympathetic, "Good-bye.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Shevraeth himself was there to bid us farewell--a courtesy I could have done without.
~ Sherwood Smith
I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.
~ Shirley Jackson
When the cow goes to pasture," says my mother, "it forgets to say good-bye.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Comprendí en seguida que formaban parte de los placeres de los viajes las amistades sin futuro y el leve desgarramieto de las despedidas.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
As I turned away, I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the waters. It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world. - Watson.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descending; In twilight copse the glow-worm lights her spark, The deer, half seen, are to the covert wending. Resume thy wizard elm! the fountain lending, And the wild breeze, thy wilder minstrelsy; Thy numbers sweet with nature's vespers blending, With distant echo from the fold and lea, And herd-boy's evening pipe, and hum of housing bee.
~ Sir Walter Scott
I will never see him again. Never know why he let me go. Never learn if he really whispered what I think he did. Beautiful.
~ Sophie Jordan
Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;
~ Sophocles
When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.
~ Guy Lombardo
This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
~ Louise Bagshawe, Glamour
You rarely get closure when you leave something unknown.
~ Karishma Magvani
I wish you all the best in life. Hell, I will even write your obituary for free.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.
~ Ken Poirot
Perhaps it's impolite to die so flippantly, after all she's done for me.
~ Richard Smyth, Wild Ink
You say good-bye, and you think you'll be free. But I'll be awaiting you, in your final destiny.
~ Haidji, SG - Suicide Game
Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.
~ Kevin Focke
Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.
~ Erin Bowman, Taken
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
~ Kathryn Orzech, Asylum