200+ Emotional Goodbye Quotes For Friends Who Are Leaving

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We say goodbye to bid farewell to our loved ones to give them a ray of hope and make them feel assured. So, instead of a boring goodbye message, you can pick heart-warming goodbye quotes for friends and family from our collection. Goodbyes are not easy for everyone, and while bidding adieu, you experience mixed feelings owing to uncertainty about meeting the person again. You could be anxious, nervous, and even happy that they are going to a better place. Expressing our feelings through heartfelt quotes can help solidify our memories and show how much we cherish the time spent together. So, send an emotional goodbye message to friends with a positive note so that they don’t forget you and be eager to meet you again.

Goodbye Quotes For Friends

Friends may move to another city or country, bid a sweet goodbye using these unique goodbye quotes from famous personalities.

1. “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
2. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ―E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
3. “How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.” —Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain
4. “We will meet again, when we’re not expecting it, until a lucky day brings us face to face in a far off place, you will recognize my face, I won’t say goodbye, as we have shared a forever memory together.” ―Unknown
5. “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” ―Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
6. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ―J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
7. “Goodbyes are temporary, and they mean that I’ll miss till our next meeting.” ―Unknown
8. “Yesterday was a memorable day; tomorrow brings a new day full of surprises and somewhere in the middle we became a couple. So no goodbyes!”―Unknown
9. “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10. “Good friends never believe in goodbye. They wave you by saying, “See you soon.” ―Unknown
11. “The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.” ―Jimi Hendrix
12. “You never really leave the place you love. You take part of it with you and leave part of you there.” ―Unknown
13. “We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, and we were the best.” ―David Foster
14. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”―Helen Keller
15. “There may be distance of miles between us, we are never far from each other, for friendship doesn’t count miles, it’s measured by the feelings of the heart.” ―Unknown
16. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”―Henry David Thoreau
17. “Goodbye is just a greeting to someone whom you want to meet again.” ―Unknown
18. “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
19. “True friends never say goodbye, they take random leaves from each other.” ―Unknown
20. “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
21. “Goodbyes, they often come in waves.” — Jarod Kintz, $3.33
22. “Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles, it’s measured by the heart.” — Unknown
23. “Wherever you may go, Wherever you may have been, Saying goodbye is fine if you say hello again.” — John Walter Bratton
24. “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” — Garrison Keillor, Good Poems
25. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
26. “They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” — Confucius

27. 27. “And whether we shall meet again I know not.

Therefore our everlasting farewell take:For ever, and for ever, farewell, [trustees]!If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;If not, why then, this parting was well made.”

— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

28. “I have to say goodbye to you now but always keep in mind that we will meet again soon. You will always be in my heart!” — Anonymous
29. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” — Pascal Mercie, Night Train to Lisbon
30. “To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time when the quivering lips pronounce the word – Farewell.” — R.M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island
31. “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” — Clarence the angel, It’s a Wonderful Life
32. “To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”— Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
34. “We may have to part ways for now, but I know the love and care in our hearts will help us go the distance.” — Anonymous
35. “There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
36. “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road
37. “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” — Tim McGraw
38. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” — T.S. Eliot
39. “Life may take us down different paths for a while, but our friendship is a compass that will always guide us back to each other.”
40. “Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.”— Hitch, Hitch
41. “You have not just been a friend to me, you have been a family, a home, a shoulder to cry on. I’ll miss you! Goodbye and good luck!” – Anonymous
42. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
43. “You get a strange feeling when you leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you’ll never be this way ever again.” – Azar Nafasi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
44. “Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.” – Anonymous

Saying Goodbye Quotes To Someone You Love

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Love sees no distance when felt with true heart. Sometimes, lovers part ways for the happiness of the partner. So, here are some goodbye quotes for someone you love.

45. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” ―Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickelby
46. “Love will stop you from saying ciao as your heart is not ready to part away.” ―Unknown
47. “Saying goodbye is the hardest solution to any problem. But sometimes it’s the only choice we have…” ―Anurag Prakash Ray
48. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ―Mahatma Gandhi
49. “We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.” ―Vera Lynn
50. “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” ―Kiera Cass, The Elite
51. “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” ―Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
52. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ―Rumi
53. “It’s okay if we’re not together, I’m happy that you were a part of me.” ―Unknown
54. “Don’t cry because it’s over! Smile because they have been!” ―Ludwig Jacobowski
55. “You had me at hello, goodbye and everything in between.” ―Shannon L. Alder
56. “I have learned along my journey that letting go doesn’t mean loving less.” ―Unknown
57. “Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life, and this is my way of keeping you in my heart.” ―Sandi Lynn, Forever Black
58. “I don’t think that I could ever say goodbye to you… Not even if you said it to me.” ― Jaimie Roberts, Scars
59. “No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why farewells are always difficult.” — Matsuri Hino, Vampire Knight Vol. 1
60. “It is almost impossible to orchestrate the farewell you desire. That is something only a few people manage to do.” — Edwin van der Sar
61. “Why does it take a minute to say hello and a century to always say goodbye?” — Unknown
62. “It’s been an incredible ride. Mission accomplished. With that, I have to bid farewell. I’m the happiest person in the world right now. It’s better than I ever thought it would be.”— Jerome Bettis
63. “But, reader, there is no comfort in the word ‘farewell,’ even if you say it in French. ‘Farewell’ is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.”— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
64. “Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”— Jeanette Nolan
65. “Never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave” — A. A. Milne
66. “Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
67. “It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.” — Lilith Saintcrow
68. “It always is harder to be left behind than the one who leaves.” — Tamara Ireland Stone, Time After Time
69. “The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love.” — Beth Moore, The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
70. “Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
71. “We only part to meet again.” — John Gay
72. “We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate than it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it is what we were born to do.” — Grace Gealey
73. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” — R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
74. “You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people and say hello every single day when you come to work.” — Mindy Kaling
75. “Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man’s life is a long farewell.” — Haruki Murakami,Kafka on the Shore
76. “Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

77. “How do you keep the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you’re torn apart.” —Jonathan Larson
78. “I don’t know how you say goodbye to whom and what you love. I don’t know a painless way to do it, don’t know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.” — Laura Wiess,How It Ends
79. “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” —Tryon Edwards
80. “Goodbye is only painful if you know you’ll never say hello again.” — Unknown
81. “Every goodbye makes you one step closer to the next hello.” — Unknown
82. “It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.” — Snoop Dogg

Goodbye Quotes For Him

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He’s your heart, so saying goodbye to him could be difficult. If you feel short of words, choose an au revoir quote to express your feelings.

83. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” ―Helen Rowland
84. “It hurts me to say goodbye to you, my love, I will take solace in the fact that tomorrow is another day and until then I will hold on to thoughts of you to keep my heart warm.” — Stella Nwagbogwu
85. “‘What was it like to lose him?’ Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded: ‘It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me — said all at once.’” — Lang Leav
86. “The way I loved you, it’s a damn shame, wishing you were right here by my side, but you’ll always know where to find me.” — Taylor Swift
87. “It takes a second to say hi and always to wave goodbye.” ―Unknown
88. “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” ―Trey Parker
89. “A gentlemen will never have goodbye in his dictionary; all he knows is about respecting his lady.” —Unknown
90. “I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love.” —Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean
91. “We had a beautiful magic love there. What a sad, beautiful, tragic love affair.” – Taylor Swift
92. “I hate the moment when you have to say farewell to someone you always wanted to spend some more time with.” ―Unknown
93. “From all my dreams where you felt everlasting to all my clothes your words used to wear, to the old end, to the new beginning, you have lost me everywhere.” ― Khadija Rupa,Unexpressed Feelings
94. “It turns out freedom ain’t nothing but missing you, wishing I’d realized what I had when you were mine.”— Taylor Swift
95. “Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” — Richard Bach
96. “The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” ―Moira Rogers
97. “And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest.”— Taylor Swift
98. “But on a Wednesday in a cafe, I watched it begin again.”— Taylor Swift

99. “So for now, I say goodbye to this chapter of my life, and I look forward to what comes next.” — Unknown
100. “Before you leave me again, tell me, so I can let you know if I’m ready to watch you go…” ― Donna M. Zadunajsky
101. “I don’t wanna say goodbye, but sometimes things don’t go as we’d like.”— Eminem
102. “True friends don’t say goodbye; they just take extended leaves of absence from each other.” — Unknown
103. “It’s bittersweet to say goodbye.” — Olivia Rodrigo

Goodbye Quotes For Her

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She brightened your world with her love and care. Now when it’s time to choose different paths, say goodbye by using a special quote.

104. “Moving onis a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” ―Dave Mustaine
105. “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ―George Eliot
106. “The return makes one love the farewell.” ―Alfred de Musset
107. “No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”―Terry Pratchett, Nation
108. “I didn’t know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.” — Ann Rinaldi, A Stitch in Time
109. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ―Nicholas Sparks,The Notebook
110. “Saying goodbye is so hard, my sweetheart, it is a goodbye to myself.” ―Unknown
111. “Goodbye is the difficult thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when you don’t want to say goodbye.” ―Unknown
112. “My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best… my very best, I set you free” ― Rachel Yamagata
113. “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” ―Jean Paul Richter
114. “I don’t want to let you go, but I know you will be great without us right there by your side.” —Unknown

Funny Goodbye Quotes

Be it family members, friends, or partners, saying goodbye doesn’t need courage. Sometimes, you need to be funny at a serious moment and bid farewell with a funny goodbye quote. So, go ahead and add some humor to your goodbyes while still wishing the best wishes for the future.

115. “Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” ―J.D. Salinger,The Catcher in the Rye
116. “Bye Felicia!” ―Ice Cube, Friday
117. “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world.” ―John Green,Paper Towns
118. “I’ll see you in another life. When we are both cats.” ―Tom Cruise,Vanilla Sky
119. “I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.” ―Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
120. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” ―Oscar Wilde,The Duchess of Padua
121. “Goodbye always makes my throat hurt.” ―Charlie Brown, Peanuts
122. “See you later, alligator.” ― Bobby Charles
123. “Goodie Bye, WoodieBie, Hoodie Bee!”―Unknown
124. “I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.” ―Dominic Riccitello
125. “Saying goodbye didn’t meant I will never see you again. It was a temporary goodbye.” ―Unknown
126. “So long, and thanks for all the fish!” ―Douglas Adams
127. “Goodbye, stay happy, I won’t miss you any more sticky gum.” ―Unknown
128. “Never ever say goodbye to the people you want to maintain a longer relationship with. Sometimes a goodbye can destroy the relationship in a few minutes.” ―Unknown
129. “Goodbye, Vietnam! That’s right, I’m history, I’m outta here, I got the lucky ticket home, baby.” ― Robin Williams,Good Morning Vietnam
130. “It wise to say goodbye to a relation that hurts rather suffering in wrong company for lifetime.”―Unknown
131. “I will miss you till you come back but I hope you will return back with awesome gifts. Bon voyage.” ―Unknown
132. “When I am brave enough to say goodbye I’ll use the wings you gave me and away I’ll fly.” ―Celia McMahon
133. “I hate when things are over and there’s still a lot to come.” —Unknown
134. “Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who’s already left.” — Robert Byrne
135. “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.” — Andy Bernard,The Office
136. “Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can’t we just go back to page one and start all over again?” — A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
137. “Goodbye, everyone. I’ll remember you all in therapy.” — Plankton,SpongeBob SquarePants
138. “I don’t wanna say goodbye, ‘cause this one means forever.” — Benson Boone
139. “Don’t worry, it’s just a ‘see you later, alligator’ situation.” — Bill Haley and His Comets
140. “Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again – or until you text me.” — Unknown
141. “Leaving is like getting a drink of water in the middle of the night. You turn off the lights, and you can’t find your bed.” —Unknown

Goodbye Quotes For Family

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Family is the reason for your overall development. Without family members, life seems empty. So, express the feeling of moving away by choosing a meaningful goodbye quote, whether it’s saying sayonara or expressing your heartfelt gratitude.

142. “Goodbye doesn’t mean the end. It only means that I will return or see you some other time. Take the sky, for example, the sun tells the sky goodbye when it gets dark only to return the next day once it is bright.” —Unknown
143. “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
144. “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”―Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles
145. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ―Paulo Coelho
146. “It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye.” ―Carrie Underwood
147. “I can’t remember all the times I told myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.” ―Counting Crows
148. “It’s not the days in life we remember, rather the moments.” ―Cesare Pavese
149. “Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of times.” ―Styx
150. “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
151. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ―Anatole France,The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
152. “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” ―Ritu Ghatourey
153. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — Winnie the Pooh.

Sad Good-Bye Quotes

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154. “I’m ready to say goodbye, but I’m not ready to hear it from you.” — Unknown
155. “The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.” — Leena Ahmad Almashat,Harmony Letters
156. “Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-bye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.” — John Steinbeck,The Winter of Our Discontent
157. “There’s nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.” — Jeff Thomas
158. “At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.” — Elisabetta Canalis
159. “Sometimes a goodbye is forever and you would never again get the chance to see that person again. Tragic, but it’s the real truth.” —Unknown
160. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca
161. “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
162. “Tears in my eyes, feelings of separation in my heart, it’s a sad goodbye.” —Unknown
163. “Saying goodbye is a little like dying.” —Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
164. “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” —Jonathan Harnisch, Freak
165. “It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.’” ―Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard
166. “Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.” —William Cowper
167. “Goodbye is the saddest word I ever heard, goodbye is the last time I will hold you near.” —Celine Dion
168. “A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.”—Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Love
169. “Anyone with a heart, a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand the basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we will see that person again, or perhaps knowing that we will not.” —Luanne Rice
170. “We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.” — Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
171. “Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful.” — Beau Taplin
172. “The easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.” — Phil Knight,Shoe Dog
173. “For every goodbye, God also provides a hello.” — Donna Gable Hatch
174. “You can kiss your family and friends goodbye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” — Frederick Buechner
175. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller
176. “Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.”— Marcus Aurelius, A Little Book of Selected Quotes on Life, Philosophy, and Stoicism
177. “Saying goodbye feels hard, for sure, but I am confident that it is a door through which we walk to bring us to another good chapter in our story together.” — Unknown
178. “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 goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.” — Charles M. Schultz
179. “Goodbyes are not forever, goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again.” — Unknown
180. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is even if we are apart, I’ll always be with you.” — Carter Crocker, Disney’s Pooh’s Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin
181. “I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.” — Unknown
182. “There was something unfinished about not saying farewell, like a door left open in the chill night.” — Julie C. Dao, Forest of a Thousand Lanterns
183. “I’ve been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.” — Roy Oswalt
184. “Being able to say goodbye is a sign of growth.” — Gustavo Cerati
185. “Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you don’t.” — Boon Hogganbeck, The Reivers
186. “If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.” — John Mayer
187. “With every goodbye comes a new beginning and we can look forward to the possibilities that lie ahead. When we part ways, we can take comfort in knowing that life was good.”— Rolf van der Wind
188. “To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.” — George Lansdowne
189. “It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?” — Benjamin Franklin
190. “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” — William Penn
191. “May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always with you, may the sunshine warm you always till we meet again.” — Irish blessing
192. “I miss you in waves, and tonight, I’m drowning.” — Ghost Memories
193. “I exist in two places, here and where you are.” — Margaret Atwood
194. “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” — E. E. Cummings
195. “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” — Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
196. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”— Dr. Seuss
197. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
198. “The hardest goodbyes we face are the ones we never saw coming.” — Unknown
199. “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean forgetting, it means we can’t be together right now.” — Unknown
200. “It’s hard to say goodbye to the person who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.” — Unknown
201. “It’s not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow.” — Unknown
202. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” — Henry Rollins
203. “The only time a goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again.” — Unknown
204. “When I say goodbye, promise me you won’t cry because the day I’ll be saying that would be the day I die.”— Unknown
205. “The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can’t you see? I do not.” — Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
206. “Goodbye, my almost lover, goodbye, my hopeless dream.”— A Fine Frenzy

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Akshay is an associate editor and former journalist with more than four years of experience. A post graduate in Mass Communication and Journalism, he has strong professional and academic background in the field of content writing and editing.

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