Quotes About Farewell

When you read this, I shall be gone. I shall not tell you where I am going, because I do not intend ever to return.

It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In

Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes.

I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.

Not death. Just the end of living.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us?

Turn off the light, she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.

The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.

So I want to say that of all the people I have known, you are the only person I regret leaving behind.

A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.

if you haven't had to you won't ever understand how brutal how ugly how devastating it is to leave or that it would have been worse to stay

The squid are leaving, Maura…

I'm sorry I bothered you, Susan. I'm just having a tough time. That's all. Have a good one, I said and walked away.

I knew it wasn't fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left.

If you're saying farewell to your arms, what do you use to wave goodbye?

This species, the mute swan, became holy to Apollo. In remembrance of the death of the beloved Phaeton the bird is silent all its life until the very moment of its death, when it sings with terrible melancholy its strange and lovely goodbye, its swan song. In honour of Cygnus the young of all swans are called 'cygnets'.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

Oy? he asked. Will you say goodbye? Oy looked at Roland, and for a moment the gunslinger wasn't sure he understood. Then the bumbler extended his neck and caressed the boy's cheek a last time with his tongue. I, Ake, he said: Bye, Jake or I ache, it came to the same.

He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.