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40 Best Goodbye Quotes

List Of 40 Best Goodbye Quotes:

#1 Dr. Seuss

“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

#2 Shannon L. Alder

“I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.”

#3 Jonathan Harnisch

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”

#4 Jeff Thomas

“There’s nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.”

#5 Beyonce Knowles

“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.”

#6 V.E. Schwab

“If you decide to leave – when you decide to leave – don’t do it without saying good-bye.”

#7 Nancy Omar

“It is foolish to walk away when you have so much love in your heart.”

#8 Marjane Satrapi

“Saying goodbye is a little like dying.”

#9 Ann M. Martin

“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”

#10 Johnny Depp

”I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting… and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.” 

#11 Genevieve Gorder

”And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it’s all done. It really breaks you.”

#12 Mimi Novic

”It is mostly the farewells that unite us, and last in our memory forever, even more than the first meeting.”

#13 Elisabetta Canalis

”At the end of the day, I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.”

#14 Jessiqua Wittman

“A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.”

#15 Stephen King

“Ending is just another word for goodbye.”

#16 Celia Mcmahon

“When I am brave enough to say goodbye, I’ll use the wings you gave me and away I’ll fly”

#17 Ransom Riggs

“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”

#18 Josephine de La Baume

”Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.” 

#19 Vasily Grossman

“There’s nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you’ve suffered.”

#20 Amy Winehouse

“Feel so fucking angry; don’t want to be reminded of you, But when I left my shit in your kitchen, I said goodbye to your bedroom it smelled of you”

#21 Juliet Marillier

“This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”

#22 Sanober Khan

“A flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don’t know, if you will ever come back.”

#23 Yo Yo Honey Singh

”It’s never easy for me to say goodbye. I get attached to people very quickly, and with ‘Raw Stars,’ my connection is even more special. I’m in love with their music and perhaps their biggest fan. I think every artiste on the show is mind-blowing.”

#24 Colleen Hoover

“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.”

#25 Jane Fonda

”I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.” 

#26 John Green

“I do not say goodbye. I believe that’s one of the bullshittiest 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.”

#27 Lilith Saintcrow

”It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.” 

#28 J.R.R. Tolkien

“Well, here, at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

#29 Marshall Goldsmith

”The last thing I say on most phone calls is not, ‘Goodbye,’ but, ‘Thank you.’” 

#30 Jimi Hendrix

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again”

#31 Karen Salmansohn

”Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.”

#32 Helen Rowland

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

#33 Trey Parker

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

#34 Jack Kerouac

“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.”

#35 Snoop Dogg

”It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.” 

#36 Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

#37 James Marsden

”Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.”

#38 Cassandra Clare

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

#39 Eduardo Galeano

”History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’”

#40 J.M. Barrie

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

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