70 Goodbye Quotes to Express an Emotional Farewell

If your colleague, friend or family member is leaving, use these meaningful goodbye quotes to say how you truly feel & show your heartfelt appreciation for them.

Goodbye Quotes

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

“So long, see you around, but never a final goodbye.” – Fred Flagler

“Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another anymore till at the right hand of Christ.” – Donald Cargill

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” – Frederick Buechner

“My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye.” – Pocahontas

“Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving… Always moving on.” – Karen Kingsbury

“There was something unfinished about not saying farewell, like a door left open in the chill night.” – Julie C. Dao

“The pain of a hard goodbye 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

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

“I’ve been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.” – Roy Oswalt

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

“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

“Follow your dreams, work hard, practice, and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.” – Sasha Cohen

“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.” – Cecelia Ahern

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

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

“Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. 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

“Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.” – Elizabeth Taylor

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

“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.” – Eduardo Galeano

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

“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.” – Dr. Seuss

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

“It’s so hard saying goodbye… it’s hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.” – Saqib Saleem

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” – Lazarus Long

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

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

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

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

“Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.” – Nicholas Sparks

“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

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

“Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.” – Taylor Swift

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

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

“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It’s the thing that lets us say goodbye.” – Jeffrey Eugenides

“I’ll see you in another life. When we are both cats.” – Tom Cruise

“Saying goodbye is the hardest solution to any problem. But sometimes, it’s the only choice we have.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

“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

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

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

“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 finale of every year is a time to say goodbye to one year and welcome the coming of a new one. A blessed year may it be.” – Kate Summers

“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

“To say goodbye is to die a little.” – Raymond Chandler

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

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

“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

“Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye.” – Robert J. Braathe

“For every goodbye, God also provides a hello.” – Donna Gable Hatch

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

“I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!” – Christopher McCandless

“I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love.” – Jenny Han

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

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

“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

“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

“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.” – Ouida

“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

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. –I shall feel it.” – Victor Hugo

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

“If no one has called you back when you left a place, then your decision to leave that place was precisely true!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

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

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller