“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
Source: The Long Goodbye
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Raymond Chandler 124
Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959Related quotes
“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”
Variant: Saying goodbye is a little like dying.
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Say Goodbye to Hollywood.
Song lyrics, Turnstiles (1976)
Last words to Peter Lawford (5 August 1962), as quoted at Spiegel Online http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,475898,00.html
Variant: Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy.
“I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, goodbye.”
Rent (1996)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Now, it's a little wrong to say that the people die. The fact is, they don't die.”
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s, Talk at University of California, Berkeley, 1984
Context: Rio de Janeiro, incidentally, is not the poor part of the country, that sort of the rich part of the country. It's not the northeast, where 35 million people or so, nobody knows what happens to them, or cares. But Rio de Janeiro, that's where people are looking, the rich parts. And this journal is a science journal, kinda like Science in the United States. It was studying malnutrition. And here's the figures it had for Rio de Janeiro: infants from 0 to 5 months, severe malnutrition, meaning medically severe, 67%; 5 months to a year, 41%; a year to 5 years, 11%. Now the reason of course for the decline, from 67 to 41 to 11, is that they will die. So that's what happens under the conditions of the economic miracle, like in Guatemala. Now, it's a little wrong to say that the people die. The fact is, they don't die. We kill them, that's what happens. We kill them by carrying out policies, supporting the regimes of the kind that I've described. And by intervening with force and violence to suppress and destroy any attempt, however minimal, even on a speck like Grenada, we've got to stop any attempt to bring some change into this. That's the history of our hemisphere.
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (2012)
"Castles in the Air"
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1970)
Context: And if she asks you why,
You can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of castles in the air.
I've got a dream I want the world to share,
And castle walls just lead me to despair.Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky,
A dream come true, I'll live there till I die.
I'm asking you to say my last goodbye.
The love we knew ain't worth another try.