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200+ Best Goodbye Quotes to Say Farewell

Life is full of goodbyes. It is really very hard to say goodbye to someone who you love. When time to say goodbye is came, you will feel sad. Famous goodbye quotes help you express how you feel can make the transition smoother and more memorable.

Regardless of how you define it, goodbye can often be hard to express, but with hurt quotes, you can put into words. Understand your feelings with powerful unrequited love quotes and broken heart quotes of some of the most famous writers, actors, and even philosophers from history.

Goodbye Quotes to Say Farewell

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. – Semisonic

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. – William Shakespeare

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It is hard to say goodbye to someone with whom you spend so many years – Unknown

It is hard but you have to say goodbye because to start a new chapter in life you have to end the previous chapter – Unknown

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. – A.A. Milne

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

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. – Paulo Coelho

This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. – Unknown

Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want. – Unknown

The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last. – Moira Rogers

Farewell doesn’t mean that you will not see each other but it means that you will meet again and create more memories – Unknown

It doesn’t matter if today we are going on a different journey but I promise you that I will meet you again no matter how far you are – Unknown

Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life. – Unknown

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It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. – Carrie Underwood

It is not ending it is the beginning so smile and say goodbye – Unknown

To move forward in life you have to say goodbye if you can’t say goodbye you will never able to move forward – Unknown

Goodbyes, they often come in waves. – Jarod Kintz

Goodbye always makes my throat hurt. – Charlie Brown

See You Later Alligator. – Bill Haley and the Comets

Bye Felicia! – Friday

I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with. – Unknown

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go – Oscar Wilde

Goodbye, but you will always be in my memories and I will always treasure the memories that I created with you – Unknown

In every goodbye, there is a secret message that is we will miss you until you come back – Unknown

So long, and thanks for all the fish! – Douglas Adams

We are really going to miss trying to avoid you around here. – Unknown

Thanks for the memories. – Unknown

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Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you. – Unknown

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss

Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. – J.D. Salinger

I will always remember you no matter where I go – Unknown

When you have to start a new adventure in life you have to say goodbye to your past – Unknown

Goodbye, Vietnam! That’s right, I’m history, I’m outta here, I got the lucky ticket home, baby. – Good Morning Vietnam

I wanted to see him again, to say goodbye the way that I wanted. Then I realised if I got my way, I’d never say goodbye. – Unknown

How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to. – Unknown

I’ll miss you until you come back but I hope you’ll make up for it by getting me awesome gifts. Bon voyage. – Unknown

Saying farewell to someone means saying thank you for everything you have done for me – Unknown

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It is painful to say goodbye to someone you love but when you will reunite it is the happiest moment in your life – Unknown

We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, we were the best. – St. Elmo’s Fire

A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. – Richard Bach

At some point, you have to understand that this is a real-life if you have to move on in life you have to say goodbye – Unknown

We started with hello created some beautiful memories now we have to say goodbye, life is unpredictable – Unknown

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. – Robert Southey

Saying goodbye is the painful way of solving a problem. – Unknown

My heart doesn’t want to say goodbye but my mind says it is ok you will see him soon – Unknown

I’m grateful that I’m blessed with such a great friend but now we have to live apart, goodbye my friend and always keep smiling – Unknown

You were my hardest goodbye. – Unknown

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Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? – Richard Bach

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

At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life. – Unknown

You have given me so many funny and beautiful memories, thank you for everything it does not end here we will meet again – Unknown

Friends never say goodbye, because they believe that this is not ending we gonna meet again someday in life – Unknown

There’s a hell – Unknown in hello, good – Unknown in goodbye, lie – Unknown in believe, over – Unknown in lover, end – Unknown in friend, if – Unknown in life. – Unknown

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

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. – Irish Blessing

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. – E.B. White

It’s not the goodbye that hurts it’s the flashbacks that follow. – Unknown

Goodbye friend but always remember the time we spent together – Unknown

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The roads are different the journey is different but you will always be that friend that I can’t imagine to forget – Unknown

Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again. – Unknown

So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next. – Brooke Davis

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. – Garrison Keillor

This is the beginning of anything you want. – Unknown

This is not farewell my friend, this is the promise that I will meet you once again – Unknown

This is not goodbye my friend this is the beginning of our new journey, let’s create memories again when we meet – Unknown

The only time goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again. – Unknown

Thank you for everything that you’ve accomplished so far, and good luck to everything you will in the future. – Unknown

I hope our paths cross again until then take care of yourself and stay happy my friend – Unknown

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Farewell my friend, I hope the road you choose is filled with happiness walk this road and always remember our friendship – Unknown

Having awesome colleagues is a bad habit, because it’ll be impossible to work with someone else now that you’re leaving. Goodbye. – Unknown

Nothing lasts forever. Forever is a lie. All we have is what’s in between hello and goodbye. – Unknown

Memories may be beautiful and yet what’s too painful to remember we simply choose to forget. So it’s the laughter we’ll remember when we remember the way we were. – Unknown

We had so much fun together, my friend but now it’s time to say goodbye – Unknown

Friendship never ends with goodbye if you had a real friend you will never forget him because friends are like family no matter how far you go you will always remember them – Unknown

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. – Ernie Harwell

So, old friends, now it’s time to start growing up, taking charge, seeing things as they are, facing facts, not escaping them, still with dreams, just reshaping them, growing up. – Stephen Sondheim

It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. – Ernie Harwell

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

fate is taking you away and ripping us apart. I just want to say that I will miss you from the bottom of my heart. Goodbye my friend, see you soon. – Unknown

Farewell my friend but always remember that life is a long journey you are leaving now but in this long journey I hope we will see each other again – Unknown

I think I will never find such a great friend like you again, farewell and see you soon my friend – Unknown

As long as we loved until our last goodbye, then our love had been whole and true. – Unknown

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When I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever, and if I had the choice, I’d always want to be there, those were the best days of my life. – Unknown

We’ll meet again, Don’t know where,don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day. – Vera Lynn

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

The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back. – Wendy Wunder

Farewell my friend, I wish we had spent more time together, good luck and enjoy your journey – Unknown

Goodbye friend you will never feel sad in life because you have our memories – Unknown

The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last. – Moira Rogers

Our friendship is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Talking to you made me smile and meeting you set me free. I can’t believe that

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. – Unknown

Goodbye but I will come back for you because I promised you that I will always stay by your side – Unknown

No matter where I go, I will never forget you because there is only one person in my heart that is you, my love – Unknown

The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained. – Unknown

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We started here together and now we’re leaving the same way. The funny thing is you never appreciate what you had yesterday until it is gone today. – Unknown

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

One goodbye can’t separate us because we promised each other that we will live together, no matter what happens in life – Unknown

Whenever you need me just close your eyes I will be right there – Unknown

You know it’s love when you have been saying goodbye for how many times but still you’re not ready to leave. – Unknown

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

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. – Jack Kerouac

Goodbyes hurt when the story is not finished and the book has been closed. – Unknown

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. – Unknown

We are saying farewell now but this is not the end of our love story, the love story will continue – Unknown

Some goodbyes make you cry and make you feel like you lost something important in life – Unknown

When I’m saying goodbye to you it’s like someone has taken my soul out of my body – Unknown

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Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. – Trey Parker

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. – Unknown

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. – Helen Rowland

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. – Helen Keller

We made promises that we will never leave but now we are saying goodbye to each other – Unknown

I know you have to leave but I can’t say goodbye because it is so painful to live without you, I will miss you – Unknown

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. – Kiera Cass

You had me at hello, goodbye and everything in between. – Shannon L. Alder

One day at a time, this is enough. Don’t look back and grieve over the past for it is gone. Do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. – Unknown

I actually thought this time was going to be different. – Unknown

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Our hearts are connected, our souls are connected, so don’t cry my love, no matter how far we are, we are always there for each other – Unknown

It is painful to say goodbye but when I think about when we meet again then it makes me feel happy – Unknown

Goodbyes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say goodbye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. – Unknown

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. – Unknown

We started with a simple hello, but ended with a complicated goodbye. – Unknown

I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. – Colleen Hoover

Someday you’ll see the reason why, there’s good in goodbye. – Unknown

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. – Unknown

I think whenever my heart wants to see you I will look to the moon because it reminds me of you – Unknown

Thanks for making my life so beautiful I wish you good luck and I hope we will meet again – Unknown

Can’t we go back and enjoy those moments again because I don’t want to say goodbye to you – Unknown

I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people. – Christa McAuliffe

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The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love. – Beth Moore

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. – Nicholas Sparks

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

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. – Dave Mustaine

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye. – Elisabetta Canalis

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. – Unknown

I’m so lucky that I got a chance to work with you I hope you get what you desire in life, farewell my friend – Unknown

I had so much fun working with you I can’t explain in words, I will never find such an amazing person like you, farewell and keep smiling – Unknown

When I say goodbye, promise me you won’t cry, ’cause the day I’ll be saying that would be the day I die. – Unknown

Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels. – Unknown

Life is a journey, not a destination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. – Nicholas Sparks

The return makes one love the farewell. – Alfred de Musset

Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. – Jean Paul Richter

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. – Dr. Seuss

You will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye. – Unknown

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that’s how I’ll remember you. If you can only remember me in sadness and tears, then don’t remember me at all. – Unknown

Your words always inspire me, thanks for inspiring me when I’m feeling down, farewell buddy and I hope you always stay happy wherever you go – Unknown

Working with you I learned so many things thanks for sharing your knowledge, farewell and don’t forget me – Unknown

Farewell friend, I hope you accomplish great things in life and your hard work pay off – Unknown

No one knows the exact moment when a friendship is formed, but it is this silent forgotten moment that causes the pain when we must say goodbye. – Unknown

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect. – Terry Pratchett

I wonder how people say goodbye to someone forever? – Unknown

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The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. – Jimi Hendrix

I know we’ll be friends for life, sharing our dreams together. As we walk down the road, we’ll never think twice, these memories are made forever. – Unknown

We have known each other our whole lives and now we will go our separate ways. Some will remember and some will forget each other, but we will always have a part of each other inside us. – Unknown

I never met such a hard-working guy before It is a fun and joyful ride till now but now it’s time to say goodbye – Unknown

Without you around, it is hard to work, farewell we will miss you – Unknown

Thanks for always solving my problems but now you are leaving with whom I will share my problems – Unknown

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. – J.M. Barrie

Though miles may lie between us, We are never far apart, For friendship doesn’t count miles, It’s measured by the heart. – Unknown

And all at once, you look across a crowded room, you see an old pal of yours, but suddenly you feel like you’re seeing him for the first time, and that’s when you realize that you will never be the same again. – Unknown

Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. – Unknown

If you cry when we part we’ll never see each other again, but if we do not cry we’ll remember forever the days of sunlight and laughter, and be brought together in our memories. – Unknown

To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word – Farewell. – R.M. Ballantyne

Goodbyes are not forever, Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you, Until we meet again. – Unknown

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Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. – Unknown

Coming to work and not seeing you is painful but the memories we created will always remain, farewell my friend – Unknown

Keep working hard and don’t forget us always stay in touch, farewell buddy – Unknown

Every goodbye always makes the next hello closer. – Unknown

It doesn’t matter if you have five friends or five hundred friends. When it all comes down to it, popularity means nothing. All that matters is that you know those five will be there holding your hand, as the five Hundred walk by. – Unknown

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. – Charles Dickens

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

Enjoy the beauty of a sunset and enjoy nature’s farewell kiss for the night. – Unknown

This is the time to remember because it will not last forever; these are the days to hold on to because we won’t although we’ll want to. – Unknown

Find the good in goodbye. – Unknown

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Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say ‘See you soon.’ – Unknown

True friends don’t say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other. – Unknown

Love your parents and treat them with loving care, for you will only know their value when you see their empty chair. – Unknown

It’s funny. No matter how hard you try, you can’t close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what’s going to come in. But when it does, you’ve just got to go for it, cause if you don’t, there’s no point in being here. – Unknown

With your resignation, your employment in this company may finish but the sweet memories will always remain. – Unknown

Today, I close the door to my past… Open the door to the future, take a deep breath and step on through to start the next chapter in my life. – Unknown

When there are no words, simply love them & hold their hand. – Unknown

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. – Unknown

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. – Unknown

We’ve shared our happiness and we’ve shared our fears. We’ve shared so many things throughout the years. And when the times were hard we were by each other’s side. You were there to make me laugh when I cried. – Missy Ulbrich

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities. – Marcus Buckingham

Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting, there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything partying there was some of the joy of meeting as well. – Unknown

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave. – A.A. Milne

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It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard. – Angela Ruggiero

A memory lasts forever, never will it die… true friends stay together and never say goodbye… – Unknown