Farewell famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Because I liked you better Than suits a man to say, It irked you, and I promised I'd throw the thought away. To put the world between us We parted stiff and dry: 'Farewell,' said you, 'forget me.' 'Fare well, I will,' said I. If e'er, where clover whitens The dead man's knoll, you pass, And no tall flower to meet you Starts in the trefoiled grass, Halt by the headstone shading The heart you have not stirred, And say the lad that loved you Was one that kept his word.
-- A. E. Housman -
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
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 -
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.
-- Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari -
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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 -
Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me.
-- Anne Bronte -
That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched its whole magnificence for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sun light, and set out to become what I became.
-- Anne Rice -
Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.
-- Aron Ralston -
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
-- Arthur Bryant -
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime Of fairy o'er this land of ours; When glistening leaves and shaded streams In the soft light of Autumn lay, And, like the music of our dreams, The viewless breezes seemed to stray 'T was bitter then to rend the heart With the sad thought that we must part; And, like some low and mournful spell, To whisper but one word farewell!
-- Benjamin -
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
-- Boris Pasternak -
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
-- Carl Jung -
How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.
-- Carole Maso -
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
-- Charles Churchill -
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
-- Charles Darwin -
Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.
-- Charles Lamb -
We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset.
-- Charles Lichenstein -
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.
-- Charles Tennyson Turner -
One line on the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines. They'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.
-- Choi Yoon-young -
I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.
-- Christa McAuliffe -
There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can't-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be - like with Superman and Lois Lane. There's the first kiss - one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there's the kiss of possession - which was how Ren kissed me now.
-- Colleen Houck -
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
-- Dan Stevens -
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
You should not confuse your career with your life.
-- Dave Barry -
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
-- David Hare -
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.
-- David Morrell -
Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.
-- Davy Crockett -
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
-- Denis Diderot -
I more or less intended it (the farewell tour) to be for the United Kingdom and not so much over here, but everywhere I've worked, they've been aware this is my final tour ? my final year ? which in all likelihood is gonna be the case.
-- Don Williams -
Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.
-- Donald Cargill -
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
-- Ernie J Zelinski -
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 -
I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
-- Eva Braun -
...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.
-- Ford Madox Ford -
The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.
-- Galeazzo Ciano -
I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells,
-- Gannicus -
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
-- Garrison Keillor -
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
-- George Eliot -
Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you. Jon: I have one more farewell to make. Robb: Then I haven't seen you.
-- George R. R. Martin -
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.
-- George Vaillant -
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
-- George Washington -
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.
-- Hans Christian Andersen -
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar -
I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
-- Haruki Murakami -
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.
-- Haruki Murakami -
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.
-- Helle Thorning-Schmidt -
I remembered... It was the colour of your hair. Farewell...Erza. ~I'm Jellal Fernandez. What about you, Erza?(I'm Erza. Just Erza.) Well, that's kind of sad. Ohh!(Hey...What are you doing?!)It's such a pretty scarlet colour...I know! We'll give you the last name of Scarlet!(Erza...Scarlet) It's the colour of you hair! Nobody will ever forget that!~(Jellal...)
-- Hiro Mashima -
If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.
-- Hugh Downs -
It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.
-- Isak Dinesen -
Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
-- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont -
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
-- Itzhak Perlman -
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.
-- James Gates Percival -
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
-- James Weldon Johnson -
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
-- Jean Paul -
It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.
-- Jim Boeheim -
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
-- Jimi Hendrix -
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
-- John Donne -
Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.
-- John Dryden -
Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing in the light! Even at this distance, he has marked you, and suspects that you bear no goodwill towards him, for he sees that you have a gun, and he has many a time been frightened by its report, or that of some other. The wary bird draws his feet under his body, springs upon then, opens his wings, and with loud quacks bids you farewell.
-- John James Audubon -
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
-- John Milton -
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 -
Leaving Verses Poems Quotes To say goodbye Isn't a pain Unless you're never going...! (Tee hee)
-- John Walter Bratton -
Wherever you may go Wherever you may have been Saying goodbye is fine If you say hello again
-- John Walter Bratton -
It takes a minute to say hello Why? I wonder why When it's seems to take forever When you have to say Goodbye?
-- John Walter Bratton -
Goodbyes are not forever Goodbyes aren't final, when You only mean we'll miss you Until we meet again
-- John Walter Bratton -
This goodbye will only seem Like an eternal pain If I fail to merely miss you Until we meet again As we assuredly will I've made my mind up
-- John Walter Bratton -
We've shared good (times) We've shared good fries We've shared good (beers) But never goodbyes... Till now Mind how you go, good buddy
-- John Walter Bratton -
When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles, When the time comes to embrace for one long last while, We can laugh about how time really flies, We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.
-- Joshua Kadison -
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 -
I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.
-- Kevin Hart -
Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would include blessings of children, baptisms, other priesthood ordinances, graduations, missionary farewells, homecomings, and, of course, marriages. Sharing these occasions as a family will help us build a foundation established upon a rock.
-- L. Tom Perry -
Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman
-- Laura Nyro -
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
-- Laurence Sterne -
Speaking as he unintentionally launched his farewell tour by announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Honestly, I had never, ever in my wildest dreams believed I would ever do this. All I wanted to do was to play it out and when it was time to go, hang it up, take off and sail into the sunset somewhere.
-- LaVell Edwards -
The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten.
-- Lee Bo-na -
A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.
-- Libba Bray -
Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
-- Lord Byron -
[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.
-- Lotte Lehmann -
High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney -
The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our bellies. The sailors heaved up the anchor, square and chalky with barnacles, and loosened the sails. Then they took their seats at the oars that fringed the boat like eyelashes, waiting for the count. The drums began to beat, and the oars lifted and fell, taking us to Troy.
-- Madeline Miller
