31 Quotes About Saying Goodbye

Having to say a goodbye can be a difficult thing to experience. These quotes about saying goodbye capture the sadness that is experience when people lose a loved one or suffer the loss of a friend that relocates some place far away.

“A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.”

“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before we can meet again and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.”

“Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!”

“From all my dreams where you felt everlasting to all my clothes your words used to wear, to the old end, to the new beginning, you have lost me everywhere.”

“Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.”

“I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come — We’ll face it together. To whatever end.”

“I don’t think that I could ever say goodbye to you… Not even if you said it to me.”

“I don’t say goodbye unless I think it’s final.”

“I find wisdom in the waves. Goodbye is a hello to a life without you.”

“I guess that’s what saying goodbye is always like- like jumping off an edge. The worst part ”

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

“It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.”

“It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages.”

“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

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

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

“Never say goodbye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can’t take it. Never say you don’t love the person anymore when you can’t let go.”

“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.”

“Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”

“Saying goodbye hurts, but knowing it is goodbye kills.”

“Saying goodbye is a little like dying.”

“Saying goodbye to someone’ Just means that there’s a hello waiting around the corner.”

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn’t easy.”

“Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.”

“The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.”

“They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.”

“We only part to meet again.”

“We started here together and now we’re leaving the same way. The funny thing is you never appreciate what you had yesterday until it is gone today.”

“You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.”

Not all goodbye’s have to be sad. You can always be happy for the person and the next stage of life they embark on.