“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
Aphorism #33
Interglacial (2004)
Goodbye quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of moving on, sad quotes, good night, goodbye.
Best goodbye quotes
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Khalil Gibran book The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Variant: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“No matter where you go, there you are”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes
“There is, in the end, the letting go.”
Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“As long as there's life, there's hope.”
Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children
“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
"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.”
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer
Goodbye quotes
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) American historian
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. ”
Alice Morse Earle (1851–1911) American historian
“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”
George Strait (1952) American country music singer, actor and music producer
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!”
Christopher McCandless (1968–1992) American hiker and explorer
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
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.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
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. <br class="br">Disputed
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: The Book of Tomorrow
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
“Death ends a life, not a relationship”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
“That's for me to know, and for you to find out.”
Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Reality' is a word with many meanings.”
Peter Brook (1925) English theatre and film director and innovator
Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
“There are no problems, only solutions.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
"Watching the Wheels"
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
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. <br class="br">Disputed
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
Lois McMaster Bujold The Sharing Knife
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.”
Nagarjuna (150–250) Indian philosopher
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.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“At last, the wheel comes full circle”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
Trademarked closing lines in The Writer's Almanac http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/ <br class="br">Source: Good Poems
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
“There is no escape if love is not there”
Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
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…”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Source: John Mayer - Battle Studies
“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye”
Richard Armour (1906–1989) American writer
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“You never know what's coming for you.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay
“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
“And so on to the end of the chapter.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 10.
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
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.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
"Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile", line 35.
“The friends of my friends are my friends.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)
“I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously.”
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
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”
Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002) Dutch politician
Appearance on the Dutch-TV program "Jensen!", a couple of months before being assassinated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Sl4CvmjfE <br class="br">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”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
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.