Top 85+ Goodbye Quotes And Farewell Sayings

The following are the most popular and inspiring goodbye quotes. If you don’t know how to say “goodbye” to a friend, miss someone or looking for farewell sayings – check the quotes below.

Best Goodbye Quotes

1. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

2. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie The Pooh

3. “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever.”

4. “Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.”

5. “We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye.”

6. “Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.”

7. “I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with.”

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

9. “Thanks for the memories.”

10. “Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.”

11. “I wanted to see him again, to say goodbye the way that I wanted. Then I realised if I got my way, I’d never say goodbye.”

12. “How lucky I am to have known someone who was so hard to say goodbye to.”

13. “Saying goodbye is the painful way of solving a problem.”

14. “You were my hardest goodbye.”

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

16. “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”

17. “There’s a “hell” in hello, “good” in goodbye, “lie” in believe, “over” in lover, “end” in friend, “if” in life.”

18. “It’s not the goodbye that hurts it’s the flashbacks that follow.”

19. “Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.”

20. “So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” – Brooke Davis

21. “Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say “See you soon”.

22. “This is the beginning of anything you want.”

23. “The only time goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again.”

24. “Nothing lasts forever. Forever is a lie. All we have is what’s in between hello and goodbye.”

Popular Goodbye & Farewell Quotes

25. “Memories may be beautiful and yet what’s too painful to remember we simply choose to forget. So it’s the laughter we’ll remember when we remember the way we were.”

26. “Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before we can meet again and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.”

27. “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

28. “Our friendship is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Talking to you made me smile and meeting you set me free. I can’t believe that fate is taking you away and ripping us apart. I just want to say that I will miss you from the bottom of my heart. Goodbye my friend, see you soon.”

29. “As long as we loved until our last goodbye, then our love had been whole and true.”

30. “When I look back now, that summer seemed to last forever, and if I had the choice, I’d always want to be there, those were the best days of my life.”

31. “You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people and say hello every single day when you come to work.”

32. “The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.”

33. “We started here together and now we’re leaving the same way. The funny thing is you never appreciate what you had yesterday until it is gone today.”

34. “Goodbyes hurt when the story is not finished and the book has been closed.”

35. “It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.”

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

37. “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.”

38. “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” – Helen Rowland

39. “One day at a time, this is enough. Don’t look back and grieve over the past for it is gone. Do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.”

40. “I actually thought this time was going to be different.”

41. “Goodbyes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say goodbye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.”

42. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

43. “Someday you’ll see the reason why, there’s good in goodbye.”

44. “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.”

45. “I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.” – Christa McAuliffe

46. “At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.” – Elisabetta Canalis

47. “Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.”

48. “When I say goodbye, promise me you won’t cry, ’cause the day I’ll be saying that would be the day I die.”

49. “Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels.”

50. “You will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye.”

51. “Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that’s how I’ll remember you. If you can only remember me in sadness and tears, then don’t remember me at all.”

52. “No one knows the exact moment when a friendship is formed, but it is this silent forgotten moment that causes the pain when we must say goodbye.”

53. “I wonder how people say goodbye to someone forever?”

54. “The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.” – Jimi Hendrix

55. “I know we’ll be friends for life, sharing our dreams together. As we walk down the road, we’ll never think twice, these memories are made forever.”

56. “We have known each other our whole lives and now we will go our separate ways. Some will remember and some will forget each other, but we will always have a part of each other inside us.”

57. “And all at once, you look across a crowded room, you see an old pal of yours, but suddenly you feel like you’re seeing him for the first time, and that’s when you realize that you will never be the same again.”

58. “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.”

59. “If you cry when we part we’ll never see each other again, but if we do not cry we’ll remember forever the days of sunlight and laughter, and be brought together in our memories.”

60. “Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

61. “Every goodbye always makes the next hello closer.”

62. “It doesn’t matter if you have five friends or five hundred friends. When it all comes down to it, popularity means nothing. All that matters is that you know those five will be there holding your hand, as the five Hundred walk by.”

63. “Enjoy the beauty of a sunset and enjoy nature’s farewell kiss for the night.”

64. “This is the time to remember because it will not last forever; these are the days to hold on to because we won’t although we’ll want to.”

65. “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.”

66. “Find the good in goodbye.”

67. “A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.”

68. “True friends don’t say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.”

69. “Love your parents and treat them with loving care, for you will only know their value when you see their empty chair.”

70. “It’s funny. No matter how hard you try, you can’t close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what’s going to come in. But when it does, you’ve just got to go for it, cause if you don’t, there’s no point in being here.”

71. “With your resignation, your employment in this company may finish but the sweet memories will always remain.”

72. “Today, I close the door to my past… Open the door to the future, take a deep breath and step on through to start the next chapter in my life.”

73. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

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

75. “When there are no words, simply love them & hold their hand.”

76. “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.”

77. “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.”

78. “We’ve shared our happiness and we’ve shared our fears. We’ve shared so many things throughout the years. And when the times were hard we were by each other’s side. You were there to make me laugh when I cried.” – Missy Ulbrich

79. “We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.” – Marcus Buckingham

80. “Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting, there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything partying there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”

81. “Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave.” – A.A. Milne

82. “It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.” – Angela Ruggiero

83. “Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.”

84. “A memory lasts forever, never will it die… true friends stay together and never say goodbye…”

85. “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.”