I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.

What’s done is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we’re wasting time when already we’ve wasted enough. We’ve got everything ahead, waiting for us.”Just the right words to make...

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can’t help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between...

I guess it’s going to have to hurt, I guess I’m going to have to cry, And let go of some things I’ve loved to get to the other sideI guess it’s going to break...

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

We stood, holding each other’s faces, memorising every last detail. I was deperate with my own need to capture this last, lingering moment, desperate to forget the horrible sink at the pit of my stomach...

I’ve heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help...

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

He still had his eyes on me, and it occurred to me that he was thinking the same thing as I was; that I was very underdressed to be here. I needed to leave, and...

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

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well – too well...

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

I love hellos that last a lifetime, and goodbyes that are invisible, inaudible, and otherwise undetectable. Tell your mom I’m waving at her.

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

It seemed so good when it started.I gave my trust to you.I came to you open-hearted,Hoping it was true.Now I’ve gotten smart.Now I’ve learned some things.Now I know that what once was a start,Is just...

It were a grief so brief to part with thee.Farewell.

He came up and kissed me on my forehead, and before he stepped away, I closed my eyes and tried hard to memorize this moment. I wanted to remember him exactly as he was right...

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either...

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.

Come, Paul!” she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I thought he receded; I thought he would go. Pierced deeper than I could...

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

I couldn’t make myself move from the bed. To reach for you. I’d known this moment was coming, and now that it had arrived I found I had no strength in my limbs.Only my voice....

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult....

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

I used to sell hellos by the wave until I found out Dark Jar Tin Zoo was reselling them on eBay as goodbyes. Now I’m a yawn distributor.

She could have lived every minute she’d had with him better. She should have always spoken the best words she could to him.

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.

For Sayonara, literally translated, ‘Since it must be so,’ of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by...

a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don’t know, if you will ever come...

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and...

Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth’s power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.

God created night and day without your help, enjoy His gift of rest tonight. Tomorrow will bring showers of blessings and joy! Good night, you are safe in His hands.

I’m sorry, Mamma,” I whisper to the shell in front of me. I take her hand. It could belong to a glass doll. There’s no life there anymore. So I gather rocks, one by one,...

Life, will be a very great deal less weird without you!

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.

there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadseems themost sensiblethinga person can doissitwith drink inhandas the wallswavetheir goodbyesmilesone comes throughit allwith a certain amount ofefficiency andbraverythenleavessome acceptthe possibility ofGodto help themgetthroughotherstake itstaight onand...

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.

A great day has come and gone. A better tomorrow awaits us all.

Sometimes the hardest goodbyes are the ones never said, the ones that always just hang there in the back of the mind like a dark cloud. There’s so much to say but no one to...

Goodbyes, they often come in waves.

So long as I remain in Day’s life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go…

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.