Goodbye has traditionally been a tear-inducing and challenging word. It’s the last time you say goodbye to something that’s important to you. But some people say goodbye with a smile on their faces. They know that there will be many more goodbyes in their future, and they’re excited for the next one.
The word goodbye is not often said when parting with someone we love. To say goodbye to someone you love, that person must leave to continue their life. This is how it should be; otherwise, saying goodbye would mean always having them in your life and never moving on with the rest of yours. With that being said, you shouldn’t fear saying goodbye to a loved one because it’ll allow for new beginnings in your life and theirs.
Saying goodbye means you are also saying goodbye to yourself and your past self, so by saying goodbye, you’re saying hello again.
Here are the top 100 famous quotes to inspire you as you say goodbye
“We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye.”
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” ― Dr. Suess
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ― Helen Keller
“The only time goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again.”
“Memories may be beautiful and yet what’s too painful to remember we simply choose to forget. So, it’s the laughter we’ll remember when we remember the way we were.”
“It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.” ― Angela Ruggiero
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” ― Charles Dickens
“Nothing lasts forever. Forever is a lie. All we have is what’s in between hello and goodbye.”
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ― T.S. Eliot
“By and by we shall say goodbye.” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ― Semisonic
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.” – Colleen Hoover
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” – Trey Parker
“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.” ― Khadija Rupa
“I wanted to see him again, to say goodbye the way that I wanted. Then I realized if I got my way, I’d never say goodbye.”
“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” – Dr. Seuss
“We’ll meet again, Don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, Some sunny day.” – Vera Lynn
“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
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web)
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie The Pooh
“I wanted to see him again, to say goodbye the way that I wanted. Then I realised if I got my way, I’d never say goodbye.”
“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.” ― Sarah J. Maas
“Farewell! For in that word that fatal word however We promise, hope, believe there breathes despair.” ― Lord Byron
“How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.”
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo
“Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.”
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ― A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world.” John Green
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” ― Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
“There’s a “hell” in hello, “good” in goodbye, “lie” in believe, “over” in lover, “end” in friend, “if” in life.”
“You were my hardest goodbye.”
“Goodbye always makes my throat hurt.” – Charlie Brown
“The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love.” – Beth Moore
“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” – Helen Rowland
“We started with a simple hello, but ended with a complicated goodbye.” – Unknown
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ― Paulo Coelho
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” Nicholas Sparks
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
“It’s not the goodbye that hurts it’s the flashbacks that follow.”
“Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.”
“This is the beginning of anything you want.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ― Anatole France
“Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” ― Jean Paul Richter
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say ‘See you soon.’” – Unknown
“I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.” ― Dominic Riccitello
“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
“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” ― William Shakespeare
“Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with.”
“Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.”
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” – Jean Paul Richter
“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
“At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”
“Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.”
“So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” – Brooke Davis
“Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say “See you soon”.
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ― J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
“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
“We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, we were the best.” – St. Elmo’s Fire
“A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
“Thanks for the memories.”
“Saying goodbye is the painful way of solving a problem.”
“We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where,don’t know when,
But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.” ― Vera Lynn (We’ll Meet Again)
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ― George Eliot
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” ― Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)
“The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” ― Moira Rogers
“It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“When I am brave enough to say goodbye, I’ll use the wings you gave me and away I’ll fly.” ― Celia McMahon
“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” ― Richard Bach
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” – J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
“You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” – Kiera Cass
“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 (On the Road)
“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
“The return makes one love the farewell.” – Alfred de Musset
“Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.” ― Unknown
“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
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” ― Dave Mustaine
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” ― Confucius
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
“You had me at hello, goodbye and everything in between.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Though miles may lie between us,
We are never far apart,
For friendship doesn’t count miles,
It’s measured by the heart.” ― Unknown
“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
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.”
