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• To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word – ‘Farewell” R.M. Ballantyne
• The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye until we meet again. Jimi Hendrix
• 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 of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well. Cassandra Clare
• You get used to someone – start to like them, even – and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves. Rachel Ward
• Heartbreak,  Grief,  Sadness,  Break up,  Loss

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Saying goodbye can be very emotional …

• It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard. Angela Ruggiero

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… for emotions are often purest at the hour of separation

• Man’s feelings are always purest and many glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. Jean Paul Richter
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran
• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. George Eliot
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Farewells are often very painful …

• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. William Shakespeare
• Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. Emily Dickinson
• Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• Pain

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… especially when the farewell is a final one …

• A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.
• I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever? Ann M. Martin
• Saying goodbye is easy to say. Walking out the door knowing you won’t see that person again is the hard part.
• The two hardest things to say in life are ‘Hello’ for the first time and “Goodbye” for the last.

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… especially where there is great love …

• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. George Eliot
• Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper
• I don’t know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don’t know a painless way to do it, don’t know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense. Laura Wiess, How It Ends
• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. Nicholas Sparks
• Love

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… especially where you’re the one being left behind

• It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…

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Goodbye is one of the saddest and hardest words to say …

• But, reader, there is no comfort in the word “farewell,” even if you say it in French. “Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. Kate DiCamillo
• Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been – A sound which makes us linger; – yet – farewell! Lord Byron
• Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.  M. Grenon
• It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye. Kurt Vonnegut
• That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love, farewell! Robert Pollok
• I do not say goodbye. I believe that’s one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It’s not like you’re given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn’t-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it’s supposed to be a good one. John Green
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… and some argue there is not much “good” about it

• There’s nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye. Jeff Thomas
• Where is the good in goodbye? Meredith Willson
• I do not say goodbye. I believe that’s one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It’s not like you’re given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn’t-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it’s supposed to be a good one. John Green

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Much of the pain of farewell is the anticipation of missing each other

• It’s not the goodbye that hurts, it’s the flashbacks that follow.
• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay
• What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? Frances Anne Kemble
• As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. Alcibiades
• Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. John Dryden

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Farewell can feel like a kind of death

• As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. Anna Brownell Jameson
• Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Henry Fielding
• Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. Tryon Edwards
• To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. George Lansdowne
• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. William Cowper
• Death

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Endings are always hard and we can’t always assure a happy one

• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end.  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.  Gilda Radner
• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Lazurus Long

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When you say goodbye, find a reason to smile

• Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.  Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Don’t cry because you’re leaving. Smile because you were here.
• Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. Dr. Seuss
• Smiling is the way the soul says hello. Obviously, a frown means goodbye. Is there a word halfway between hello and goodbye? Because that’s what my soul is saying right now. Jarod Kintz
• How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Thomas Meeha
• Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. Trey Parker
• Smiling

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If you’ll meet again one day, remind yourself of the joy of it

• Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.  And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.  Richard Bach
• The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? Nicholas Rowe
• Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you Until we meet again!
• Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.
• The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred De Musset
• We only part to meet again. John Gay
• You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. Tom Petty
• Joy

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Remind yourself that absence can strengthen a relationship

• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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Remind yourself that no distance of place or lapse of time can lessen true friendship

• No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. Robert Southey
• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Henry David Thoreau
• Though miles may lie between us we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles it’s measured by the heart. Richard Bach
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Farewell can make you think and remind you what you’ve taken for granted

• Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. William Cowper
• Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted. Ritu Ghatourey

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Farewell can be a chance to move on

• I guess it’s gonna have to hurt, I guess I’m gonna have to cry, And let go of some things I’ve loved, To get to the other side, I guess it’s gonna break me down, Like falling when you try to fly, It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, Starts with goodbye. Carrie Underwood

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Know you’ll still be together in spirit and in your heart …

• Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
• Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. Walt Disney
• Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. Kay Knudsen
• There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. Gandhi
• If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever. Winnie the Pooh

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… and in your memories

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.  Washington Irving
• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.
• A memory lasts forever, never does it die. True friends stay together and never say goodbye.

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When you say goodbye, life often rewards you with a new hello …

• For every goodbye, God also provides a hello. Donna Gable Hatch
• If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest
• The good side of goodbye is: I can start a new beginning and create a new better ending.

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… hello to a new adventure

• It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. Ernie Harwell
• What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. Jack Kerouac
• Adventure

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A goodbye can refresh and renew your life

• Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. Jean Dubuffet

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When you say goodbye, think of some comforting words to part with

• Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.  Jean Paul Richter

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Here are some words of parting

• Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. Garrison Keillor
• Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. Lord Byron
• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. William Shakespeare
• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. William Shakespeare
• No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect. Terry Pratchett
• You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. Tom Petty
• On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Steve Jobs
• One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you. Robert Dodsley
• Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds. Emperor Saga
• So sorry you’ll be leaving. You’ll be missed ever so much. Good luck in the future. And please stay in touch.

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Here are some farewell blessings

• A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you. Irish Blessing
• Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Some trails are happy ones, Others are blue. It’s the way you ride the trail that counts, Here’s a happy one for you. Dale Evans
• May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. Irish Blessing
• May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields.  And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. Irish Blessing
• May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. Irish Toast

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Here are some words to provide comfort

• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest
• 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 of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well. Cassandra Clare

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• Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth I’m Kissing You Goodbye   Cynthia Heimel
• I want to be your favorite hello and your hardest goodbye.
• I’ll never forget the time they gave me a farewell party at work. I was so surprised  – I didn’t even know I was fired.   Paul Dillery
• I’ve got seven kids – the three words you hear most around my house are: Hello, goodbye and I’m pregnant.   Dean Martin
• Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who has already left.   Robert Byrne
• Money talks…but all mine ever says is good-bye.
• Tears: A good-bye product.  

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