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

We only part to meet again.
~John Gay

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
~Jean Paul Richter

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
~Author Unknown

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

~Alfred Tennyson

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
~Charles M. Schulz

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again!

~Author Unknown

The return makes one love the farewell.
~Alfred De Musset

You're searching...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.

~Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, "In the Home Stretch"

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.

~Lord Byron

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

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?

~Alexander Pope

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
~Alan Alda

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

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!
~Robert Pollok

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

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?
~Nicholas Rowe

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
~William Shakespeare

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.

~Irish Blessing

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?
~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
~Lazurus Long

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.

~Irish Blessing

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

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

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.
~R.M. Grenon

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.
~Author Unknown

Farewell!
For in that word - that fatal word - howe'er
We promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.

~Lord Byron

Let's not unman each other - part at once;
All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
Else they make an eternity of moments,
And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.

~Lord Byron

A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
~Author Unknown

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!
~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

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

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed