“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
A collection of quotes on the topic of moving on, sad quotes, good night, goodbye.
“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
The Prophet (1923)
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Variant: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“As long as there's life, there's hope.”
“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”
"Where Are We Now?" (2013)
Song lyrics, The Next Day (2013)
Context: Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you
“You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.”
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. ”
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
Variant: Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
“I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!”
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
A version of this quote was published anonymously in an insurance magazine in 1908 https://books.google.com/books?id=S2JJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA375&dq=%22others+whenever+they+go%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja94i3iaXLAhUY7mMKHW5fAGIQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%22others%20whenever%20they%20go%22&f=false. The earliest attribution to Wilde was in 1955 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22others+whenever+they+go%22+wilde#hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1900%2Ccd_max:1999&tbm=bks&q=%22others+whenever+they+go+oscar+wilde+jive%22; no source in Wilde's writings has been found.
Disputed
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
Source: The Book of Tomorrow
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Death ends a life, not a relationship”
“That's for me to know, and for you to find out.”
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Reality' is a word with many meanings.”
Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
“There are no problems, only solutions.”
"Watching the Wheels"
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)
The quote is usually regarded as anonymous, but is often attributed to her on several websites, as well as in several books, including My Life Is an Open Book http://books.google.es/books?id=qCOa1k--dt4C&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q=eleanor%20roosevelt&f=false (2008), The Spirituality of Mary Magdalene http://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=BLRuINwzVZcC&dq=eleanor+roosevelt++%22past+is+history%22&q=eleanor+roosevelt#v=snippet&q=eleanor%20roosevelt&f=false (2008), Mis cuatro estaciones http://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=QCgANqKq8EIC&dq=ayer+es+historia%2C+ma%C3%B1ana++misterio.+Hoy+regalo+de+Dios+presente&q=%22eleanor+roosevelt%22#v=snippet&q=%22eleanor%20roosevelt%22&f=false (2008), and Gilles Lamontagne http://books.google.es/books?ei=MdG9UqGQK-fL2wX5zYC4Dw&hl=es&id=WyFKAQAAIAAJ&dq=Hier+est+de+l%27histoire%2C+demain+est+un+myst%C3%A8re+et+aujourd%27hui+est+un+cadeau.+C%27+est+pourquoi+nous+l%27appelons+%C2%AB+le+pr%C3%A9sent+roosevelt&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=eleanor+roosevelt (2010). None of these works cite any original reference.
Disputed
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
Dag Redwing hickory Bluefield
Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008), p. 163
The Sharing Knife, Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008)
“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”
That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.
§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
Trademarked closing lines in The Writer's Almanac http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Source: Good Poems
“It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”
Source: On the Road
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday…”
Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies
“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye”
“You never know what's coming for you.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”
“And so on to the end of the chapter.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 10.
Source: Pensées Philosophiques (1746), Ch. 3, as quoted in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
And frustrate hope severer than despair.”
"Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile", line 35.
“I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously.”
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 94, p. 316
Context: I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
“And if something were to happen to me”
Appearance on the Dutch-TV program "Jensen!", a couple of months before being assassinated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Sl4CvmjfE
Context: If you could see what I get in my mailbox every now and then, regarding threats, and so on, well that doesn't exactly cheer you up, and the Dutch government – and I think it's a 'bloody shame' – helps create a climate demonizing me personally. And if something were to happen to me – and I'm glad that you're giving me the chance (to say this) – if something were to happen to me, then they will be partly responsible, and they can't just walk away saying "I'm not the one who committed the attack." They helped to create this climate (this atmosphere), and it needs to stop.
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending”
Elegiac Verse, st. 14 (1879).
Context: Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending;
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.