GOODBYE

You and I will meet again When we're least expecting it One day in some far off place I will recognize your faceI won't say goodbye my friend For you and I will meet again~Tom Petty

Goodbyes are not forever.Goodbyes are not the end.They simply mean I'll miss youUntil we meet again!~Author Unknown

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.~Alfred Tennyson
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest

Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.~John Gay

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne

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

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?~Frances Anne Kemble

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

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor

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

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ~George Eliot

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.~William Shenstone

She went her unremembering way,She went and left in meThe pang of all the partings gone,And partings yet to be.~Francis Thompson

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ~Henry Fielding

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ~A.A. Milne

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

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

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and makeThy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.~William Shakespeare

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.~Lord Byron

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

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. ~William Shakespeare

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

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

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. 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

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!~Lord Byron

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

Farewell! For in that word - that fatal word - howe'er We promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.~Lord Byron

Let's not unman each other - part at once;All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.~Lord Byron

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! ~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

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 Richter

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed