"And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still."
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"Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise."
"There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart."
"The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs."
"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
"It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all."
"You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever."
"It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies"
"Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be."
"Goodbye don't mean gone."
"There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me."
"There's never a right time to say goodbye."
"May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye."
"The story of love is hello and goodbye... until we meet again."
"Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not."
"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."
"You either kiss the future or the past goodbye."
"Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell."
"Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence."
"I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye."