Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Massenet

Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.

Richard Crashaw

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

Robin Hobb

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Walter Savage Landor

There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

Yann Martel

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

Jorge Luis Borges

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 tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

David Brenner

You weren't doing a Cher thing. This wasn't your 12th farewell tour.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.