Parting Quotes
186 quotes by 158 authors
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Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.
— Natsuki Takaya
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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
— George Eliot
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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that…
— Kate Elliott
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Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No,…
— Patrick Ness
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His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Parting is such sweet sorrow
— William Shakespeare
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This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound…
— Beatrice Sparks
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When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea.…
— Clive Barker
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All partings foreshadow the great final one.
— Charles Dickens
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Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.
— Robin McKinley
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There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it…
— Kristin Cashore
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People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.
— Unknown Author
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I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us -…
— Maureen Johnson
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It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow…
— Cassandra Clare
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That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
— George Eliot
Who Wrote These Parting Quotes
158 authors contributed a total of 186 Parting Quotes, led by these top contributors: