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Saying farewell Quotes

19 quotes from 17 authors

Saying farewell can feel like closing a chapter, yet it also opens a fresh page. The nineteen quotes here capture that bittersweet tension—some whisper lingering love, others cheer a bold new start. If you’re drawn to parting wisdom, the ‘Goodbyes & Beginnings’ and ‘Life Transitions’ collections offer more perspectives.

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“If you're saying farewell to your arms, what do you use to wave goodbye?”

Stephen Colbert

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

William Shakespeare

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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

William Shenstone

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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

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Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

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Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my…

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Some trails are happy ones, Others are blue. It's the way you ride the…

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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,…

Anna Brownell Jameson

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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

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One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

Richard Simmons

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Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel,…

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Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.

William Shakespeare

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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words…

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When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles, When the time comes to embrace for one long last…

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I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life.…

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Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave…

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“My love and my joy, if I die from illness, madness or sadness, if before the time allotted me by fate is…

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The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,…

Arthur Schopenhauer

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