
“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
Source: Life and Fate
“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
“One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.”
Sahara with Michael Palin (2002)
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations
“Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
“Nothing is more difficult than writing an autobiography.”
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
Context: Nothing is more difficult than writing an autobiography. What should be emphasized? Just what is of general interest? It is advisable, above all, to write honestly and dispense with any of the conventional introductory protestations of modesty. For if one is called upon to tell about one's life so as to make the events that made it what it became useful to the general public, it can mean only that one must have already wrought something positive in life, accomplished a task that people recognize. Accordingly it is a matter of forgetting that one is writing about oneself, of making an effort to abjure one's ego so as to give an account, as objectively as possible, of one's life in the making and of one's accomplishments.
“Nothing's fair when we lose without a moment to say goodbye.”
How Come the World Won't Stop
Freak of Nature (2001)
“Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.”
Source: Bag of Bones
“Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)