50 Inspirational Goodbye Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you."

- Nicholas Sparks

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."

- J.M. Barrie

"Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

- Seneca

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."

- George Eliot

"For each moment I am apart from you, I will feel your presence in my heart. Let me whisper to you one more time, "I Love you". My love for you is timeless and infinite, a journey without end."

- Rolf van der Wind

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand."

- Irish Blessing

"I don’t have to be so afraid of goodbye, because goodbye doesn’t have to be forever."

- Jenny Han

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

- A.A. Milne

"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

"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)."

- E.E. Cummings

"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

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be always with you, may the sunshine warm you always till we meet again."

- The Hobbit

"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

- Paul Klee

"Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be."

- Disney

"You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you."

- Kiera Cass

"The pain of a hard good-bye 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

"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

"I don’t think that I could ever say goodbye to you… Not even if you said it to me."

- Jaimie Roberts

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."

- George Elio

"My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are – you will always have a place to stay."

- K.A. Hill

"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

"The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence."

- Edward Thomas

"Love them like you've come to the hospital to see them and this is the last time before they say goodbye."

- Nitya Prakash

"Every beginning has an ending. Don’t let the goodbye scare you from starting what could be the best story of your life."

- Dawn Lanuza

"So, for now, I say goodbye to this chapter of my life, and I look forward to what comes next."

- Brooke Davis

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

- Richard Bach

"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

"Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."

- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh"

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world."

- John Green

"You had me at hello, goodbye and everything in between."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall."

- Doug Fetherling

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

- Confucius

"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

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."

- Robert Southey

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing."

- E.B. White

"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

"Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it."

- Trey Parker

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"We’ll meet again, Don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, Some sunny day."

- Vera Lynn

"With every goodbye comes a new beginning and we can look forward to the possibilities that lie ahead. When we part ways, we can take comfort in knowing that life was good."

- Rolf van der Wind

"I exist in two places, here and where you are."

- Margaret Atwood

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great."

- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth."

- Robert Southey

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

- Helen Keller

"Distance is not for the fearful, it’s for the bold. It’s for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It’s for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough."

- Meghan Daum

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

- Thomas Fuller

"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

"I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!"

- Christopher McCandless

"My world has changed, and so have I. I have learned to choose and I have learned to say goodbye."

- Pocahontas

"Hello is a beginning, and so is goodbye. Goodbye is like a caterpillar that becomes a butterfly."

- Refiloe Moahloli

"Sometimes you’ve got to walk away from something to walk into better things."

- Temi O'Sola

"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."

- Anatole France

"We were together even when we were apart."

- Shannon A. Thompson

"Sometimes goodbye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place."

- Jamie McGuire

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."

- Irving Berlin

"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Distance between two people is inconsequential when their souls are united."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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 goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."

- Jack Kerouac

"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

"Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye."

- Taylor Swift

"Saying goodbye is the hardest solution to any problem. But sometimes, it’s the only choice we have."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"They kissed goodbye—somewhere between a routine kiss and a wish that it wasn’t."

- Jeff Arch

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be the beginning."

- Ivy Baker Priest

"I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love."

- Jenny Han

"We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, we were the best."

- St. Elmo’s Fire

"Perhaps the only thing sadder than saying goodbye to a friend is knowing that they will never be the same as who you remember them to be."

- Jomny Sun

"It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye."

- Carrie Underwood

"I guess saying goodbye makes us reach out for those we would ordinarily ignore. Maybe we care about them more, too, when it is time to part."

- Kyung-Sook Shin

"We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible."

- Donna Goddard

"The actuality that the heart does not want to feel, doesn't negate the certitude that it once felt and will still feel."

- Itohan Eghide

"Two words. Three vowels. Four consonants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain, or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off your shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over."

- Maggi Richard

"Life is made of so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

- Hillary Stanton Zunin

"The return makes one love the farewell."

- Alfred de Musset

"The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back."

- Wendy Wunder

"The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last."

- Moira Rogers

"One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world."

- Buddha

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

- Dave Mustaine

"It’s so hard saying goodbye… it’s hard saying goodbye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years."

- Saqib Saleem

"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

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

- Dylan Thomas

"She didn’t resist the rush of tears. If there was no sadness about leaving New York, then her time here would’ve meant nothing."

- Rachel Hauck

"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."

- William Shakespeare

"A death is not the extinguishing of a light, but the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I don't like a long goodbye, for fear my heart may break and weep."

- Sivi le poète

"So, old friends, now it’s time to start growing up, taking charge, seeing things as they are, facing facts, not escaping them, still with dreams, just reshaping them, growing up."

- Stephen Sondheim

"The rain outside fell faster and harder as memories splash into my eye. Everything reminds me of you, it's so hard to say goodbye."

- Joy Marino

"Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell."

- Jean Paul Richter

"The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last."

- Moira Rogers

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely."

- Charles M. Schulz

"To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time when the quivering lips pronounce the word, farewell."

- R.M. Ballantyne

"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."

- Garrison Keillor

"Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable."

- The Wizard of Oz

"If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi."

- Amit Kalantri

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

- J.D. Salinger

"Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates."

- Marcel Proust

"Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he was."

- Hebrew Proverb

"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."

- Helen Rowland

"Goodbyes, they often come in waves."

- Jarod Kintz

"Goodbye always makes my throat hurt."

- Charlie Brown

"To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go."

- Lao Tzu

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

- Leonardo DaVinci

"Tears water our growth."

- William Shakespeare

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment."

- George Lansdowne

"See You Later Alligator."

- Bill Haley and the Comets

"Bye Felicia!"

- Friday

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

- Douglas Adams

"Goodbye, Vietnam! That’s right, I’m history, I’m outta here, I got the lucky ticket home, baby."

- Good Morning Vietnam

"Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart. For friendship doesn’t count miles, it’s measured by the heart."

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

"Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say ‘See you soon.’"

"You know it’s love when you have been saying goodbye for how many times but still you’re not ready to leave."

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

"If you think missing me is hard, you should try missing you."

"This is the beginning of anything you want."

"Thank you for everything that you’ve accomplished so far, and good luck to everything you will in the future."

"True friends don’t say goodbye, they just take extended leaves of absence from each other."

"Having awesome colleagues is a bad habit, because it’ll be impossible to work with someone else now that you’re leaving. Goodbye."

"We are really going to miss trying to avoid you around here."