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

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

--Jean Paul Richter

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

--Emily Dickinson

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

--Charles M. Schulz

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

--Dr. Seuss

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

--George Eliot

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?

--Author Unknown

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

--Alan Alda

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 bitter word which closed all, earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love -- farewell.

--Robert Pollok

We only part to meet again.

--John Gay

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

--William Cowper

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.

--George Lansdowne

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

--Kay Knudsen

Where is the good in goodbye?

--The Music Man

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.

--A.A. Milne

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

--Tryon Edwards

The return makes one love the farewell.

--Alfred De Musset

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

--Lazurus Long

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

--Gilda Radner

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

--Jean Paul Richter