# Quotes about farewells - Quotes: 12 - Authors: 11 - Broader topic: [Quotes about separation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/separation.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.json ## Quotes > The presence of our reciprocal love is hard to say good-bye to. [Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 99 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/the-presence-of-our.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > I would wish that I was the one leaving because that would be better than being left behind [Ayelet Tsabari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari.md) · [The Art of Leaving](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayelet-tsabari/the-art-of-leaving/i-would-wish.md) Topics: [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > When one door closes, another opens... into another room, another space, other happenings. There are many doors to open and close in our lives. Some doors we leave ajar, where we hope and plan to return. Some doors are slammed shut decisively—"No more of that!" Some are closed regretfully, softly—"It was good, but it is over." Departures entail arrivals somewhere else. Closing a door, leaving it behind, means opening onto new vistas and ventures, new possibilities, new incentives. [Helen Nearing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/helen-nearing.md) · [Loving and Leaving the Good Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/helen-nearing/loving-and-leaving-the-good-life.md) · p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/helen-nearing/loving-and-leaving-the-good-life/when-one-door.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > “You’ve said good-bye to everyone but yourself. How does a person say good-bye to himself? It’s a juicy existential dilemma.” - Murray [Don DeLillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo.md) · [White Noise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/white-noise.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/white-noise/youve-said-good-bye.md) Topics: [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. 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](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach.md) · [Illusions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/illusions.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-bach/illusions/dont-be-dismayed.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > 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](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck.md) · [The Winter of Our Discontent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-winter-of-our-discontent/farewell-has-a-sweet.md) Topics: [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little. [Raymond Chandler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/raymond-chandler.md) · [The Long Goodbye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/raymond-chandler/the-long-goodbye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/raymond-chandler/the-long-goodbye/the-french-have.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. 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-by or a bad good-by, 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](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger.md) · [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye/what-i-was.md) Topics: [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > 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-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md) · [On the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/what-is-that-feeling.md) Topics: [travel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md) · [On the Road](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road/a-pain-stabbed.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > I hope, reader, that some time while our tragedy is still playing, in some interval between acts, we shall meet again. And we shall recognize one another. And forgive me if I have troubled you more than was needful and inevitable, more than I intended to do when I took up my pen proposing to distract you from your distractions. And may God deny you peace, but give you glory! [Miguel de Unamuno](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno.md) · [Tragic Sense of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/i-hope-reader.md) Topics: [reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading.md), [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md) > One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either. [Roberto Bolaño](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roberto-bolano.md) · [Last Evenings On Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roberto-bolano/last-evenings-on-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roberto-bolano/last-evenings-on-earth/one-day-i-heard.md) Topics: [farewells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/farewells.md)