"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs."
Read quote
7 likes
Goodbye quotes
Goodbye
551 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Goodbye
Browse quotes that often appear alongside goodbye — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Goodbye quotes (page 5 of 28)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer."
Read quote
7 likes
"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God."
Read quote
7 likes
"There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye."
Read quote
7 likes
"The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left."
Read quote
7 likes
"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
Read quote
7 likes
"I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one."
Read quote
7 likes
"Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things."
Read quote
7 likes
"When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't."
Read quote
6 likes
"I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me."
Read quote
6 likes
"In 1940 I was just turning 5 years old and being taken to the movies. For those of us who were not old enough to understand the horror of war it was a very romantic era because these guys were kissing their wives and girlfriends goodbye and going off to fight and become heroes."
Read quote
6 likes
"Promise me this, that you'll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine."
Read quote
6 likes
"It's goodbye to reality when love sets in."
Read quote
6 likes
"Say goodbye to the energy vampires in your life (the negative souls who steal your enthusiasm)."
Read quote
6 likes
"A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that."
Read quote
6 likes
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."
Read quote
6 likes
"In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks, and come back like a person arriving at the office."
Read quote
6 likes
"Goodbye -- Because I love you."
Read quote
6 likes
"Nothing's forever forever's a lie. All we have is what's between hello and goodbye."
Read quote
6 likes
"I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'"
Read quote
6 likes