These bye quotes will inspire you. Saying Bye! in life can sometimes be difficult and sad.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging bye quotes, bye sayings, and bye proverbs.
Best Bye Quotes
- “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” ~ Washington Irving
- “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“Good bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art, not my friend, and I’m not thine” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” ~ Ernie Harwell
- “Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.” ~ Walt Disney
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“It’s the way you ride the trail that counts.” ~ Dale Evans
- “The return makes one love the farewell.” ~ Alfred de Musset
- “There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.” ~ Raymond E. Feist
- “Death’s in the good-bye.” ~ Anne Sexton
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“Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.” ~ Lionel Richie
- “You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!… but if it doesn’t hit with the public in two minutes, it’s bye-bye.” ~ Charlotte Rae
- “I’ve got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are ‘hello,’ ‘goodbye,’ and ‘I’m pregnant.'” ~ Dean Martin
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ~ A. A. Milne
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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ~ George Eliot
- “But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.” ~ Edward Young
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“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.” ~ Alan Alda
- “Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
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“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ~ Richard Bach
- “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” ~ Jean Paul
- “Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.” ~ Elizabeth Bowen
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
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“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” ~ Rebecca West
- “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” ~ Robert Southey
- “Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.” ~ Jean Paul
- “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” ~ Gilda Radner
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“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” ~ William Cowper
- “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” ~ Tryon Edwards
- “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” ~ Richard Bach
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“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” ~ Trey Parker
- “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.” ~ Tom Petty
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“The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
- “Gone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” ~ Garrison Keillor
- “Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn’t have missed it.” ~ Ogden Nash
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“I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.” ~ Christa McAuliffe
- “That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!” ~ Robert Pollok
- “Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.” ~ John Dryden
- “Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It’s the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here’s a happy one for you.” ~ Dale Evans -
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
- “A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.” ~ Meghan O’Rourke
- “It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.” ~ Angela Ruggiero
- “One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.” ~ Robert Dodsley -
“True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.” ~ Barbara Johnson
- “Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.” ~ Gilda Radner
- “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” ~ Kai Knudsen
- “Happy trails to you, until we meet again.” ~ Dale Evans
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“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.” ~ Gilda Radner
- “As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.” ~ Anna Brownell Jameson
- “People so seldom say I love you And then it’s either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn’t mean I know you’ll never go, Only that I wish you didn’t have to.” ~ Fulton Oursler
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“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.” ~ Robert Southey
- “Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.” ~ Ouida
- “Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.” ~ William Cowper
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“There are no good-byes, where ever you’ll be, you’ll be in my heart.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said goodbye to me as though I was emigrating.” ~ Thora Hird
“Bye!” you mean “farewell” or “so long.”
