Best Saying Good Bye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”

Knows Way Giving Ends Suffering Wise Dog Amount Picks Harder Deeper Mourning Owners Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Very Wise

Book:You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

Source: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness

“We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.”

Reality Pain Faces Loss Grieving Loved Ones Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.”

Imagination Spite Reserves Bye Good Bye Actuality Saying Good Bye

Author:Shirley Hazzard

“I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.”

People Said Remember Doors Bye Good Bye Irritating Saying Good Bye Knobs Irritating People Always Remembering

Author:Nellie L. McClung

“Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.”

Real Shows Honor Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:John Krasinski

“But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.”

Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

“I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.”

Stills House Sound Feet Streets Cry Call Me Far Away Bye Interrupted Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.”

Ends Problem All Things Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source: Salmagundi

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

Author:Richard Bach

“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.”

Author:Richard Bach

“This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.”

People Ideas Body Loss Healing Lifetime Wounds Our Time Schedules Healed Mourn Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.”

People Mean Care Loses Millions Affordable Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Affordable Care Act

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.”

Trying Mean Effort Saws Streets Wall Shots Financial Reform Frank Bye Good Bye Reins Saying Good Bye Dodd Frank

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Say good-bye to a Supreme Court that is truly open and balanced and looking out for the American people. Instead the Republicans just want to capture a right-wing court for another whole generation.”

People Want Whole Generations Republican Court Wings Supreme Capture Balanced Supreme Court Right Wing Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“The people that voted for Donald Trump, the vast majority of them really thought that if Hillary Clinton won this election, that was it, that was America, say good-bye to it. She would have had the Supreme Court nominations for all the people retiring and a bunch of the left would have retired, and who knows who else. It would have been the ongoing opening up the country to outsiders and expanding the government to take care of outsiders, who are called immigrants.”

“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

“Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”

“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”

“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.”

“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.”

Source: It's Always Something

“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.”

Source: It's Always Something

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.”

Trying Mean Honesty Goodbye Lunch New Yorkers Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

Source: The Doctor, &c

“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.”

Source: Southey's Common-place Book

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

Author:A. A. Milne

“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.”

“We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.”

Way Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood”

World Might Next Love You Careful Ugly Be Careful Next Time Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Tally Youngblood

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

Book:The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then... Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.”

Ifs Years Hands Faces Song Wish Stars Letting Go Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

“I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.”

Has Beens Stills Light Eye Night House Sound Cities Feet Sky Streets Cry Beats Rain Clock Call Me Far Away Unwilling Lanes Bye Interrupted Good Bye Saddest Saying Good Bye City Lights

Author:Robert Frost

“Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye”

Way Hands Regret Losing Fragile Void Stretching Bye Trembling Good Bye Saying Good Bye Frigid Losing Myself

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”

Choices Can Do Air Worst Letting Go Edges Jumping Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Jumping Off Before I Fall

Author:Lauren Oliver

“One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.”

Way Might Remember Next Causes Voice Cry Thousand Loud Hats Next Time Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Sam Roth

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

Knows World Persons Two Effort Minutes Settling Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.”

Way Writing Heart Ends Matter Stories Lasts Night Wish Gone My Heart My Friends Letters Burned Last Words Happy Endings Bye Good Bye Julia Saying Good Bye

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.”

Men Way Play Today Seeing Tomorrow Deny Separation Immortal Farewell Bye Good Bye Ephemeral Saying Good Bye

Book:Aleph and other stories

Source: Aleph and other stories

“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

Thinking Forget Doors Return Bird Cages Protective Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Book:The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Source: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

“My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.”

Light Strong Nice Very Good Rhythm Very Strong Steel Bye My Friendship You Again Good Bye Saying Good Bye Nice To See You

Book:Novel on yellow paper: or, Work it out for yourself

Source: Novel on yellow paper: or, Work it out for yourself

“A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”

Said Lord Watches Thee Passages Absent Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Clockwork Angel

Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.”

Ifs Girl Gone Broken Dancing Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Mischievous

Book:Wither

Source: Wither

“It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.”

Knows Book Easier Hello Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Prelude

Author:Maureen Johnson

“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

Heart May Ends Seems Memories Forever My Heart Goodbye Farewell Saying Goodbye Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Goodbye Farewell Saying Goodbye Is Hard Good Farewell

Author:Walt Disney

“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.”

Believe Care Choices Given I Believe Like You Awful Supposed To Be Goodbye Saying Goodbye Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:John Green

“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”

Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:Mitch Albom

“I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.”

Way Different Different Ways Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

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