Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
Saying Goodbye quotes
Saying Goodbye
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain."
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"It was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
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"There's never a right time to say goodbye."
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"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."
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"Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do."
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"Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!"
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"They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again."
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"Sleep tight, ya morons!"
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"Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves."
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"Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter."
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"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future."
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"There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you."
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"Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to."
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"Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part."
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"Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say."
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