Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.

~Emperor Saga
Dont 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
We only part to meet again. ~John Gay
Mans feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting
and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author
Unknown
Gone flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson
Why cant we get all the people together in the world that we really like and
then just stay together? I guess that wouldnt work. Someone would leave.
Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
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
Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean Ill miss you
Until we meet again!

~Author Unknown
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be
the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope
severer than despair. ~William Cowper
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
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
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
Its the way you ride the trail that counts,
Heres a happy one for you.
~Dale Evans
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who
are thoroughly persuaded of each others worth. ~Robert Southey
Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone
you love, arent you already there? ~Richard Bach
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor

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
Not to understand a treasures 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
She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ~George
Eliot
Love is missing someone whenever youre apart, but somehow feeling warm
inside because youre close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
You and I will meet again
When were least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I wont say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again
~Tom Petty
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare
In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

~Ben Jonson
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,Forever, Flavia.com
So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
~William Shenstone
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence
is an age. ~John Dryden
Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson, The Music
Man (Thanks, Thomas)

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

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

Promise me youll never forget me because if I thought you would Id 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

May you always have work for your hands to do.

May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

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

May the sun shine, all day long,

everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~Irish Blessing

May you always have walls for the winds,

a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
~Irish Blessing

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind
extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Franois VI de la Rochefoucault

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

~Tryon Edwards

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of

separation. ~Khalil Gibran

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well.

The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
~William Shakespeare

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

The return makes one love the farewell. ~Alfred De Musset

Youre searching...
For things that dont exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings there are no such things.
There are only middles.
~Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, "In the Home Stretch"

Fare thee well! and if for ever,

Still for ever, fare thee well.
~Lord Byron

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

If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in
my garden. ~Claudia Adrienne Grandi

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,

Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,

Say, is not absence death to those who love?

~Alexander Pope

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing
much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from
the heart. ~Alan Alda

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky thats always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~Irish Blessing

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every
feast of love farewell! ~Robert Pollok

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

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?
~Nicholas Rowe

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

Shakespeare

A sunbeam to warm you,

A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing

Whereer 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

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? ~Allen Collins and
Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed
by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. ~Lazurus Long

May brooks and trees and singing hills

Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing

I wanted a perfect ending. Now Ive learned, the hard way, that some poems
dont rhyme, and some stories dont 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 whats going to happen next. ~Gilda
Radner

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

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been

A sound which makes us linger;yetfarewell!
~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

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though its one day
further from the last time you saw each other, its one day closer to the next
time you will. ~Author Unknown

Farewell!
For in that wordthat fatal wordhoweer
We promisehopebelievethere breathes despair.
~Lord Byron

Lets 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 goodbye isnt painful unless youre never going to say hello again.
~Author Unknown

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and

times 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

Dont cry because its over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss
Geisel, attributed
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard
We came as strangers and we part as friends
Farewell!! God knows when we shall meet again.
If you are brave enough to say goodbye life will reward you with a new hello
Every story has an end but in life every end has a new beginning