
Quotes about goodbye
A collection of quotes on the topic of goodbye, going, time, likeness.
Quotes about goodbye


Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY GOD BLESS All!”
Final written goodbye, August 13, 1992 http://www.christophermccandless.info/bio.html

"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.

“Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.”
Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.”
"Here It Is"
Ten New Songs (2001)

“Goodbye, Livia; remember our marriage!”
Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
Said to his wife Livia on his deathbed; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 99. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.

“Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow's another day,
All I know is we're here today.”
"Never Say Goodbye" on It's Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982).
Context: Never say goodbye,
You say tomorrow's another day,
All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you,
The kind that keeps me up all night.
So hold me tight till the room is light
And tell me that it's all right.

“There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.”
Source: Life and Fate

“I guess that's part of growing up, too--saying goodbye to the things you used to love.”
Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean
“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”

“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Ain't That a Shame (1955) co-written with Dave Bartholomew
In a Market Dimly Lit.
Brother, Sister (2006)

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy”
Source: Between the Lines

“It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”
Source: Still Another Day

“we laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.”

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Leave Me Alone, written by Pink and Butch Walker
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006)
“I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love, goodbye.”
Rent (1996)
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

Nobel Lecture (1998)

“Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye…”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“I can't set my hopes too high
'Cause every 'Hello' ends with a 'Goodbye.”
Catch Me
Lyrics, Here We Go Again (2009)

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 heard your suitcase say goodbye”
Music, New Jersey (1988)

“Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.”
"Leonard Cohen Penned Letter to 'So Long, Marianne' Muse Before Her Death" by Daniel Kreps, in Rolling Stone (7 August 2016) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-pens-final-letter-to-so-long-marianne-muse-w433144
Context: Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. … And you know that I've always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don't need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.

"Goodbye to You"
2000s, The Spirit Room (2001)
Context: Of all the things I've believed in? I just want to get it over with. Tears form behind my eyes, but I do not cry. Counting the days that pass me by. I've been searching deep down in my soul. Words that I'm hearing? Are starting to get old. It feels like I'm starting, all over again. The last three years were just pretend. And I said, goodbye to you; goodbye to everything that I knew. You were the one I loved; the one thing I that I tried to hold on to.

Source: Marcelo H. del Pilar's last words to Mariano Ponce (4 July 1896)

"Very well thanks and how are you?"
"Say Goodbye" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Say Goodbye" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLuE28J-WU (song on YouTube)

“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”
Tom, Scene Seven
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Context: Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out! — for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…

“The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.”
Source: Wolves of the Calla

“Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.”
Source: Bag of Bones

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl

“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: Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts

Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
“Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.”
Source: The Geometry of Sisters

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“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
“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye”

“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
"Goodbye", line 1; p. 24.
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945)

The on-air statement he gave at the end of "The War of the Worlds" broadcast, October 30, 1938.

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Hey Girl (1963), Co-written with Freddie Scott and Gerry Goffin, recorded by Freddie Scott and Donny Osmond
Song lyrics, Singles

Hagee: Gay Marriage = 'Kiss This Country Goodbye'
Right Wing Watch
People for the American Way
2008-05-20
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hagee-gay-marriage-kiss-country-goodbye
2011-08-06

Expecting to Fly, from Buffalo Springfield Again
Song lyrics, With Buffalo Springfield

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Song lyrics, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Song Harbour Lights
Song lyrics