Goodbye Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings

There is no material that is harder than saying goodbye.
Anonymous

We only part to meet again.
John Gay

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
Anonymous

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

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper

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

Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can’t take it. Never say you don’t love the person anymore when you can’t let go.
Anonymous

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I’ll miss you
Until we meet again!
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

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

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

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

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!
Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Anonymous

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.
A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben Jonson

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland

A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.
Anonymous

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

True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
Anonymous

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

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

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

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

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