Parting Quotes

186 quotes by 156 authors

If Dracula canâ€™t see his reflection, how come his partingâ€™s always neat? — Karl Pilkington
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. — Richard Farnsworth
Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money. — Germaine Greer
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. — William Butler Yeats
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the… — Sarah Vowell
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without… — Alan Lightman
I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his;… — Alfred North Whitehead
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. — Anton Chekhov
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains… — Theodore Roethke
Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. — Baltasar Gracian
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything… — Judith Viorst
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. — Steve Buscemi
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best… — Alanis Morissette
As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small… — Colin Baker
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Departure should be sudden. — Benjamin Disraeli
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of… — Joseph Addison

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