These saying goodbye quotes will inspire you. Saying goodbye, literally, to say “goodbye” to someone when parting.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging saying goodbye quotes, saying goodbye sayings, and saying goodbye proverbs.
Best Saying Goodbye Quotes
- “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” ~ Trey Parker
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“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” ~ Helen Rowland
- “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “I’ve never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.” ~ Yann Martel , Saying goodbye quotes love
- “And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it’s all done. It really breaks you.” ~ Genevieve Gorder
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“Happy trails to you, until we meet again.” ~ Dale Evans
- “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
- “Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems” ~ Billy Joel
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“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ~ Richard Bach
- “The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
- “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
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“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.” ~ Edward Young
- “The return makes one love the farewell.” ~ Alfred de Musset
- “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” ~ Rebecca West
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“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
- “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” ~ Garrison Keillor
- “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” ~ Tryon Edwards
- “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
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“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
- “Sleep tight, ya morons!” ~ J. D. Salinger
- “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.” ~ Cassandra Clare
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“Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.” ~ Jean Dubuffet
- “Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” ~ William Cowper , Saying goodbye quotes death
- “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
- “I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been – if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it’s all done. It really breaks you.” ~ Genevieve Gorder
- “Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.” ~ Maggie Osborne
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.” ~ Ben Jonson -
“Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn’t have missed it.” ~ Ogden Nash
- “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
- “Good bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend, and I’m not thine” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” ~ Irving Berlin
- “There are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles” ~ Joshua Kadison
- “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
- “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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“So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.” ~ William Shenstone
- “Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.” ~ Henry Fielding , Saying goodbye quotes friends
- “As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.” ~ Alcibiades
- “It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.” ~ Henry Fielding
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“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.” ~ John Dryden
- “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 - “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
- “I’ve got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are ‘hello,’ ‘goodbye,’ and ‘I’m pregnant.'” ~ Dean Martin
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“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.” ~ Ouida
- “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
- “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
- “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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“To say goodbye is to die a little.” ~ Raymond Chandler
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “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
- “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.” ~ John Green
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“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.–I shall feel it.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “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
- “There’s never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move ’cause if I don’t you’re gonna start hating me.” ~ Chris Brown
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“There’s never a right time to say goodbye.” ~ Chris Brown
- “I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.” ~ J. D. Salinger
- “I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.” ~ Cecelia Ahern
