Goodbye Quotes

Saying goodbye is always a difficult thing to do. But sadly, life is full of goodbyes. People move, switch jobs, end relationships, retire, and ultimately leave this world. Expressing your feelings with the right words can make the transition more memorable.

Our collection of goodbye quotes will surely provide you with the right words you need to bid that loved one farewell.

60 Goodbye Quotes & Farewell Sayings

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye.”― Steve Maraboli

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”― J.D. Salinger

“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

“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

“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”― disney

“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye”― Beyonce Knowles

“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”― Ann M. Martin

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

“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

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

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

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

“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.” -Garrison Keillor

“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

“There’s nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.”― Jeff thomas

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
― Jonathan Harnisch

“This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.”― Juliet Marillier

“I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.”― Shannon L. Alder

“Saying goodbye is a little like dying.”― Marjane Satrapi

“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.” -Flavia Weedn

“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

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

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

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

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

“I do not say goodbye. I believe that’s one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It’s not like you’re given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn’t-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it’s supposed to be a good one.”― John Green

“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

“Love me, even if it’s a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye.”― Faraaz Kazi

“It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.”― Kurt Vonnegut

“I know too well how good-bye can steal more than just the future.”― Talia Vance

“A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.”
― Jessiqua Wittman

“Goodbyes, they often come in waves.” – Jarod Kintz

“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

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

“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

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

“When I am brave enough to say goodbye I’ll use the wings you gave me and away I’ll fly”― Celia Mcmahon

“We want to control our deaths, our goodbye to the world, and if we can’t control it, we can at least control how we leave it behind.”― Cecelia Ahern

“Saying goodbye to the living was hard enough; saying goodbye to the dead was an impossible task.”
― Andrew Shaffer

“We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.”― Donna Goddard

“It’s hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It’s harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.”― Cornell Woolrich

“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”― Ransom Riggs

“There’s nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you’ve suffered.”― Vasily Grossman

“Goodbye always makes my throat hurt.” – Charlie Brown