Saying Goodbye and departing from the people close to you is one of the toughest decision. But we depart for the good reasons and promise to meet again in life. To meet and depart is the way of life and meet again is hope for life. These farewell quotes will allow you to bid adieu to your favorite people in style.
- “Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest or who cares the best it’s about who came & never left.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes for friend
- “Goodbye doesn’t mean forever. If it did, we ought to be saying ‘BadBye’.”
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- “This is the time to remember because it will not last forever; these are the days to hold on to because we won’t although we’ll want to.” – Billy Joel
- “I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace being there, thanks is a feeble word, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heroes often go unsung.” – Anonymous
- “It’s not the goodbyes that hurt, but the flashbacks that follow.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes about teachers
- “May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.” – Irish Toast
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” – J. M. Barrie
- “The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?” – Nicholas Rowe
- “There’s a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.” – Cecil Day-Lewis
- “There’s no love without tears, there’s no happiness without sacrifice, and there’s no forever without goodbye.” – Marquesia White
- “When someone leaves you, let them go, and know that it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. It just means that their part in the story of your life is over. Your story goes on.” – Anonymous
- “You’ve been great at your work, I am sure that at your new job your performance will be sensational as well.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes at work
- “Today I close the door to the past, open the door to the future, take a deep breath, step on through and start a new chapter in my life.” – Anonymous
- “Though miles may lie between us,
We are never far apart,
For friendship doesn’t count miles,
It’s measured by the heart.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes by famous poets - “Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels.” ― Natalie Standiford
- “Enjoy the beauty of a sunset, and enjoy nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene
- “Relax, enjoy yourself, try something new.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes for coworkers
- “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” – Ray Bradbury
- “Someday you’ll see the reason why.” – Anonymous
- “Sometimes, yeah sometimes, there’s good in goodbye.” -Carrie Underwood[Blown Away]
- “You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.” – Mandy Hale
- “When I say goodbye, promise me you won’t cry, ’cause the day I’ll be saying that would be the day I die.” – Anonymous
- “A memory last forever, never does it die, true friends stay together and never say goodbye.”
- “And as you move on, remember me, remember us and all we used to be.” – Anonymous
- “I started missing you as soon as we said goodbye.” – Anonymous
- “Saying goodbye can be tough when you don’t know if you are ever going to meet again. Only memories are left behind after a painful farewell from your beloved person.” – Anonymous
- “Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.” – Ovid
- “Every goodbye makes the next hello closer.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes for retirement
- “It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers.” – Anonymous
- “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
- “True friends don’t say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.”
- “I can’t remember all the times I told myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.”
- “The hardest part of loving someone is saying goodbye.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes all the best
- “’Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” – George Eliot
- “A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
- “Memories may be beautiful and yet what’s too painful to remember we simply choose to forget. So it’s the laughter we’ll remember when we remember the way we were.” – Anonymous
- “We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, we were the best.” – St. Elmo’s Fire
- – Bryan Adams
- “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
- “I cannot say goodbye to those whom I have grown to love, for the memories we have made will last a lifetime, and will never know a goodbye.” – Anonymous
- “One day at a time, this is enough. Don’t look back and grieve over the past for it is gone. Do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t cry because you are leaving, smile because you were there.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes for teachers
- “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Where is the good in goodbye?” – Meredith Willson
- “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.” – Ivy Baker Priest
- “Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of times.” – Styx
- “A memory lasts forever, never will it die… true friends stay together and never say goodbye.”
- “There is an end to all things no matter how much we want to hold on to them, The hardest part of loving someone is saying goodbye.” – Anonymous
- “If you cry when we part we’ll never see each other again, but if we do not cry we’ll remember forever the days of sunlight and laughter, and be brought together in our memories.”
- “With your resignation, your employment in this company may finish but the sweet memories will always remain.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes for boss
- “We’ve shared our happiness and we’ve shared our fears. We’ve shared so many things throughout the years. And when the times were hard we were by each other’s side. You were there to make me laugh when I cried.” – Missy Ulbrich
- “I hate when things are over because so much is left undone.” – Deep Blue Something
- “So, old friends, now it’s time to start growing up, taking charge, seeing things as they are, facing facts, not escaping them, still with dreams, just reshaping them, growing up.” – Stephen Sondheim
- “All good things must come to an end, but I wouldn’t have wanted it to end any other way or with any other people.” – Anonymous
- “Good friends never say “Goodbye.” They simply say “See you soon.”
- “My wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to.” – Rascal Flatts, farewell quotes good luck
- “Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that’s how I’ll remember you. If you can only remember me in sadness and tears, then don’t remember me at all.” – Little House on the Prairie
- “You might be ready to say goodbye to us, but we’re not ready to say goodbye to you.”
- “Every ending has a new beginning.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes for employee
- “Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.” – Pam Brown
- “Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again.”
- “Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.” – Emperor Saga
- “Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.” – A.A. Milne
- “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
- “A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes business
- “Somehow I know we’ll meet again. Not sure quite where and I don’t know just when. You’re in my heart, so until then it’s time for saying goodbye.” – Muppets
- “I know we’ll be friends for life, sharing our dreams together. As we walk down the road, we’ll never think twice, these memories are made forever. And though we’re off to different worlds, somehow we’re together…because deep within our heart…these memories are made forever.” – Mystic Pizza
- “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
- “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Semisonic
- “Sometimes in life there is not enough time to say all the things we need to say, and when it is all over all we can say is goodbye.” – Anonymous
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- “No one knows the exact moment when a friendship is formed, but it is this silent forgotten moment that causes the pain when we must say goodbye.” – Anonymous, farewell quotes about friendship
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “Never say goodbye because on one sunny day we will meet again.”
- “Let me make this easier than saying goodbye: let me tell you hello in advance for the next time I get to see you.”
- “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” – Garrison Keillor, farewell quotes for students
- “I’d always thought we’d be friends forever. Well, forever just got a lot shorter than I expected.”
- “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
- “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T.S. Eliot
- “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White, farewell quotes for doctors
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
- “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” – Nicholas Sparks
- “The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” – Moira Rogers
- “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” – Jean Paul Richter
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”- J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
- “We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where, don’t know when,
But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.” – Vera Lynn (We’ll Meet Again) - “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. “- Dr. Suess, farewell quotes by famous authors
- “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” – Helen Keller
- “Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.” – Anonymous
- “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” – Ritu Ghatourey
- “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” – Tryon Edwards
- “It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.” – Lilith Saintcrow
- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” – Flavia Weedn
- “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” – Trey Parker
- “History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.” – Eduardo Galeano
“We only part to meet again.” – John Gay - “I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell
- “It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.’” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.” – Alcibiades
- “Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.” – R. M. Grenon
- “Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end. It simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.” – Anonymous, bid a farewell quotes
- “I’m torn between what was and what could be.”
- “In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.” – Ben Jonson
- “It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.” -Angela Ruggiero
- “You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind.” – Anonymous
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh