Parting Quotes

186 quotes by 160 authors

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love,… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. — William Shakespeare
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of… — Aldous Huxley
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. — Colley Cibber
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of… — Seneca the Younger
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. — Stevie Smith
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to… — Walt Whitman
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. — William Shakespeare
I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice… — Chris Colfer
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek… — Ben Vereen
We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow… — William Kent Krueger
I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. — Horace
If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday… — Joyce Grenfell
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As… — Vasily Grossman
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting… — M. Scott Peck
But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us,… — Brian Lumley

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