I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells,

Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!

— Thomas de Quincey

Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

— Kangin

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

— Matsuri Hino

“While there is no one returning after sudden farewells, I see those who return after farewells that are not mournful. If you have already…

— Mehmet Çil

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When you are leaving someone, leave like the sun leaves the earth with a magnificent elegance!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ…

— Pierre Clostermann

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time…

— Margaret Atwood

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you…

— Sarah Dessen

“Farewell, Mother, careworn and abiding, Farewell, Papa, faded brightness hiding. Farewell, Constanze, I took your tales to heart, Farewell, Hans, and your fumbles in…

— S. Jae-Jones

“Farewell - though it sounds very tragic - is sometimes the best exit from the hell of unhappiness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

— Daphne du Maurier

“For that is the meaning of a farewell in the full, important sense of the word: that the two people, because they part, come…

— Pascal Mercier

One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest…

— Choi Yoon-young