Here are the top 100 famous quotes to inspire you as you say goodbye
1. “We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye.”
2. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” ― Dr. Suess
3. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ― Helen Keller
4. “The only time goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again.”
5. “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.”
6. “It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.” ― Angela Ruggiero
7. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” ― Charles Dickens
8. “Nothing lasts forever. Forever is a lie. All we have is what’s in between hello and goodbye.”
9. “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.”
10. “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
11. “By and by we shall say goodbye.” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
12. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White
13. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” ― Semisonic
14. “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
15. “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” – Nicholas Sparks
16. “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” – Trey Parker
17. “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
18. “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.”
19. “Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”
20. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” – Dr. Seuss
21. “We’ll meet again, Don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, Some sunny day.” – Vera Lynn
22. “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
23. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web)
24. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
25. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie The Pooh
26. “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.”
27. “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
28. “Farewell! For in that word that fatal word however We promise, hope, believe there breathes despair.” ― Lord Byron
29. “How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.”
30. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo
31. “Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.”
32. “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
33. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ― A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
34. “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world.” John Green
35. “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” ― Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)
36. “There’s a “hell” in hello, “good” in goodbye, “lie” in believe, “over” in lover, “end” in friend, “if” in life.”
37. “You were my hardest goodbye.”
38. “Goodbye always makes my throat hurt.” – Charlie Brown
39. “The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love.” – Beth Moore
40. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” – Helen Rowland
41. “We started with a simple hello, but ended with a complicated goodbye.” – Unknown
42. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ― Paulo Coelho
43. “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” Nicholas Sparks
44. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
45. “It’s not the goodbye that hurts it’s the flashbacks that follow.”
46. “Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.”
47. “This is the beginning of anything you want.”
48. “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
49. “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” ― Jean Paul Richter
50. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
51. “Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say ‘See you soon.’” – Unknown
52. “I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.” ― Dominic Riccitello
53. “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
54. “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” ― William Shakespeare
55. “Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach
56. “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
57. “I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with.”
58. “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.”
59. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
60. “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
61. “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” – Jean Paul Richter
62. “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
63. “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”
64. “Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.”
65. “So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” – Brooke Davis
66. “Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say “See you soon”.
67. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ― J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
68. “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
69. “We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, we were the best.” – St. Elmo’s Fire
70. “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
71. “Thanks for the memories.”
72. “Saying goodbye is the painful way of solving a problem.”
73. “We’ll meet again,
74. Don’t know where,don’t know when,
75. But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.” ― Vera Lynn (We’ll Meet Again)
76. “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ― George Eliot
77. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” ― Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)
78. “The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” ― Moira Rogers
79. “It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
80. “When I am brave enough to say goodbye, I’ll use the wings you gave me and away I’ll fly.” ― Celia McMahon
81. “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
82. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White
84. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” – J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
85. “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” – Kiera Cass
86. “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)
87. “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
88. “The return makes one love the farewell.” – Alfred de Musset
89. “Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.” ― Unknown
90. “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
91. “Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” ― Dave Mustaine
92. “They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” ― Confucius
93. “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens
94. “You had me at hello, goodbye and everything in between.” – Shannon L. Alder
95. “Though miles may lie between us,
96. We are never far apart,
97. For friendship doesn’t count miles,
98. It’s measured by the heart.” ― Unknown
99. “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
100. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
101. “May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back.”