Quotes by Saying Goodbye Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. Alice Walker letting-go-and-moving-on saying-goodbye letting-you-go I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever? Ann M. Martin saying-goodbye forever goodbye 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. Antoine de Saint-Exupery saying-goodbye love death I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. Arthur Golden saying-goodbye life thinking 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. Boris Pasternak saying-goodbye farewell pride Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do. Cassandra Clare saying-goodbye live-forever forever At last, the wheel comes full circle Cassandra Clare saying-goodbye full-circle circles Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens saying-goodbye expectations life 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! Charlotte Bronte saying-goodbye heartbreak thinking There's never a right time to say goodbye. Chris Brown time-to-say-goodbye saying-goodbye goodbye When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye. Edie Brickell saying-goodbye sadness goodbye 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. Edith Wharton saying-goodbye goodbye thinking History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later. Eduardo Galeano saying-goodbye goodbye When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye. George Gobel saying-goodbye party goodbye Being able to say goodbye is a sign of growth. Gustavo Cerati saying-goodbye growth goodbye I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.' Irene Sharaff never-say-goodbye saying-goodbye goodbye Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved Iris Murdoch saying-goodbye grief love 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. J. R. R. Tolkien saying-goodbye farewell years 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! J. R. R. Tolkien saying-goodbye taken son They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. Jane Austen saying-goodbye lasts desire 123»