“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
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“You say no, I say yes; I win, I'm the judge. Goodbye.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Sd5ZGlaZ0
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Dismissing a statement or case
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
Original: (99) Rahim Khan
Variant: It was Homaira and me against the world.... In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
"Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye" · Duet with Judy Collins on Soundstage (January 1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJImYNGqwk
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,
Yes many loved before us, I know that we are not new,
In city and in forest they smiled like me and you,
But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.
Excerpt from The Murder of Fred Hampton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7F8RfnDhkA (1971).
CH 5, "Left Wing Communism in Germany. The Leaders, the Party, the Class, the Mass"
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
“The Clique…. the only thing harder than getting in is saying goodbye.”
Variant: The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.
Source: Charmed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Pretty Committee
“One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.”
Sahara with Michael Palin (2002)