Goodbye Poems, Verses, Quotes

Goodbye Poems

.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

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A leaving poem in the form of an Irish Blessing

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel,
so nothing can harm you.
Irish Blessing

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Thank You poems

A leaving/goodbye poem  from Ireland


May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
~Irish Blessing

More Farewell verses, poems


Adieu!
I have too grieved a heart
to take a tedious leave.
William Shakespeare

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Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. 
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. 
And meeting again, after moments or lifetime,
is certain for those who are friends. 
Richard Bach

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

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Parting is all we know of heaven
and all we need to know of hell. 
Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

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Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
Alfred Tennyson


Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.  ~Henry David Thoreau


How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.  ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie


Goodbye Quotes

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.  ~Ivy Baker Priest


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


Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.
~John Gay


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


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



As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson

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

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

Lots more Leaving / Goodbye / Farewell quotes

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. ~Elizabeth Bowen

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

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


Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Farewell, my sister, fare thee well.
The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
~William Shakespeare


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

 And yet more Farewell Leaving Quotes

The return makes one love the farewell.  ~Alfred De Musset


You're searching...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.
~Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, "In the Home Stretch"


Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.
~Lord Byron


May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.  ~Irish Toast


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.  ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi


Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?
~Alexander Pope

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


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


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


What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~Frances Anne Kemble


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.  ~William Cowper


She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson


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


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


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


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


In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson


More Good Bye Quotes

So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
~William Shenstone


But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.  ~Edward Young


Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.  ~John Dryden


Where is the good in goodbye?  ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man  (Thanks, Thomas)

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


May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~Irish Blessing


That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!  ~Robert Pollok

 More Quotes about Departing

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear, and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.
~Robert Dodsley


The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?  ~Nicholas Rowe


Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.  ~William Shakespeare


A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing


Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller


If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?  ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd


Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.  ~Lazurus Long


May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing


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

 Not time yet to say Farewell to the Good-bye Leaving Quotes


Sweet is the memory of distant friends!  Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.  ~Washington Irving


Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -
A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!
~Lord Byron


Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word.  Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.  ~R.M. Grenon


Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.  ~Author Unknown


Farewell!
For in that word - that fatal word - howe'er
We promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.
~Lord Byron


Let's not unman each other - part at once;
All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
Else they make an eternity of moments,
And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.
~Lord Byron


A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.  ~Author Unknown

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


Don't cry because it's over.  Smile because it happened.  ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed