Saying farewell is one of the hardest things to do, emotions take over us when it comes to giving farewell to someone. Whether it be it when someone is near the end of their lives, or someone leaving a job after many years, and you say farewell to your coworkers, or when someone goes to another country to visit their relatives and comes back home knowing they won’t see them in a long time, giving farewell will be the hardest part. Farewell quotes are inspirational, these quotes will teach us to understand our emotions.
50 Farewell Quotes
- “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” Rumi
- “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” William Shakespeare
- “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” Jean Paul Richter
- “I’ll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.” Haruki Murakami
- “If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden.” Claudia
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” J. M. Barrie
- “I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to if I can. I am 73 now. It is taxing on me.” Miriam Makeba
- “Goodbye…? Oh no, please. Can’t, we go back to page one and do it all over again?” ” Winnie The Pooh” by A.A. Milne
- “Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.” Etty Hillesum
- “With every farewell comes a hidden hope.” Paulo Coelho
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” Paulo Coelho
- “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” Tryon Edwards
- “I don’t know how you say goodbye to whom and what you love. I don’t know a painless way to do it, don’t know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.” Laura Wiess
- “How do you keep the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out till you’re torn apart.” Rent
- “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. 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
- “The return makes one love farewell.” Alfred de Musset
- “So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” Brooke Davis
- “Farewell, fair cruelty.” William Shakespeare
- “Like flowers scattered in a storm, a man’s life is a long farewell.” Haruki Murakami
- “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” T. S. Eliot
- “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world.” John Green
- “We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.” Marcus Buckingham
- “Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.” John Steinbeck
- “You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people and say hello every single day when you come to work.” Mindy Kaling
- “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” Helen Keller
- “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.” R. R. Tolkien
- “We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate than it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it is what we were born to do.” Grace Gealey
- “Seven Words’ is a wanderer’s tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.” Weyes Blood
- “Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” Arthur Schopenhauer
- “The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” Moira Rogers
- “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” Ritu Ghatourey
- “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” Trey Parker
- “It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…” Bodie Thoene
- “It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.” Lilith Saintcrow
- “You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.” Tom Petty
- “The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again.” Jimi Hendrix
- “Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.” William Shakespeare
- “While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however, once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.” Mary Wortley Montagu
- “Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.” Walt Disney
- “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” Confucius
- “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you.” Nicholas Sparks
- “But, reader, there is no comfort in the word “farewell,” even if you say it in French.”Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.” Kate DiCamillo
- “It’s been an incredible ride. Mission accomplished. With that, I have to bid farewell. I’m the happiest person in the world right now. It’s better than I ever thought it would be.” Jerome Bettis
- “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” Henry David Thoreau
- “It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers.” Raphnie
- “Say goodbye to all your troubles and worries today so you can say welcome to joy and life tomorrow.” Myke Blaze
- “It is almost impossible to orchestrate the farewell you desire. That is something only a few people manage to do.” Edwin van der Sar
- “No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why farewells are always difficult.” Matsuri Hino
