Quotes about farewells

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

— Richard Bach

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. [Isaiah 22:13]

— Bible

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

— Lord Byron

When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

— John Donne

We only part to meet again.

— John Gay

I always made an awkward bow.

— John Keats

Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)

— French Proverb

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

— Roy Rogers

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

— William Shakespeare

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

— J. R. Tolkien

Never say goodbye, say farewell.

— Source Unknown

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

— Emily Dickinson