“Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes”

“So many faces in and out of my life
Some will last
Some will be just now and then.
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again.
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Say goodbye my baby
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Say goodbye my baby.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“If any of you should die today, could you say to God, "Lord, here is my life work. Thou didst send me into life with a handful of seeds, and here is my heart, like a garden, full of flowers?"”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

“It's as if the world is full of honeybees and I'm the only flower" -Elena”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

“Some roads are covered with flower. Some hearts are full with kindness”

Amit Ray (1960) Indian author

“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“Never, never say goodbye
To my part of your life.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing