Heartfelt Inspirations: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Quotes for Goodbyes

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

- Paul Klee

"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

"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

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Sometimes you have to say goodbye to the things you know and hello to the things you don't."

- Steve McQueen

"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

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Being able to say goodbye is a sign of growth."

- Gustavo Cerati

"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

"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."

- Vera Lynn

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

- Seneca

"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

"May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back."

- Irish Blessing

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

- Vera Lynn

"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

"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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

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

- Richard Bach

"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

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

- E.B. White

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

- John Green

"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 is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last."

- Moira Rogers

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

- George Elio

"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

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

- Kiera Cass

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

- Shannon L. Alder

"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

"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

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"The return makes one love the farewell."

- Alfred de Musset

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

- Jean Paul Richter

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

- W.S. Merwin

"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

"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

"You can only lose what you cling to."

- Buddha

"You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people, but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and place, because you’ll never be this way again."

- Azar Nafisi

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

- Confucius

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday."

- Steve Maraboli

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Carrie Underwood

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

- Moira Rogers

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s beautiful. But most of the time, it’s both."

- Lana Lang

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

- Dave Mustaine

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- William Shakespeare

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it was beautiful."

- Dr. Seuss

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

- Steve Jobs

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

- St. Elmo’s Fire

"Goodbye. It’s only for now."

- Stephen Schwartz

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"As long as we remember a person, they’re not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories—they become a part of us."

- Justin Cronin

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. 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-bye or a bad good-bye, 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

"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Disney

"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 parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well."

- Cassandra Clare

"You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves."

- Rachel Ward

"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 back."

- Sanober Khan

"Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye"

- Beyonce Knowles

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Ivy Baker Priest

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

- Pericles

"When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive."

- Paulo Coelho

"We laughed until we had to cry. We loved right down to our last goodbye."

- Michael W. Smith

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Ivy Baker Priest

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

- Pocahontas

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

- Brooke Davis

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

- Refiloe Moahloli

"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

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

- Temi O'Sola

"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

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Jaimie Roberts

"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

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

- Sivi le poète

"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

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

- Jeff Arch

"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

"For every goodbye, God also provides a hello."

- Donna Gable Hatch

"You can kiss your family and friends goodbye 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

"Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of times."

- Styx

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."

- Tim McGraw

"Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Saying goodbye feels hard, for sure, but I am confident that it is a door through which we walk to bring us to another good chapter in our story together."

- Claudia Quigg

"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 goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos."

- Charles M. Schultz

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

- Dave Mustaine

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is even if we are apart, I’ll always be with you."

- A. A. Milne

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

- Jonathan Harnisch

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

- Charles Dickens

"There was something unfinished about not saying farewell, like a door left open in the chill night."

- Julie C. Dao

"Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-bye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future."

- John Steinbeck

"If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again."

- John Mayer

"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

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

- George Lansdowne

"It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?"

- Benjamin Franklin

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."

- William Penn

"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

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

- Disney

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

"Don't be dismayed by 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

"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

"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"

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- K.A. Hill

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Jenny Han

"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

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

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye."

- Jeff Thomas

"A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality."

- John Carmack

"So long, see you around, but never a final goodbye."

- Fred Flagler

"Chase your passion, not your pension."

- Denis Waitley

"The easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye."

- Phil Knight

"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

"Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave."

- John Green

"At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone. "Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered. "He doesn't say goodbye," Inej said. She kept her eyes on the lights of the canal. Somewhere in the garden, a night bird began to sing. "He just lets go.”"

- Leigh Bardugo

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

- Amit Kalantri

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Goodbyes, they often come in waves."

- Jarod Kintz

"Goodbye always makes my throat hurt."

- Charlie Brown

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

- Garrison Keillor

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

- Helen Rowland

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

- J.M. Barrie

"There’s a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go."

- Tennessee Williams

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Douglas Adams

"The pain of parting is short."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"Sometimes goodbye is a second chance."

- Shinedown

"Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave."

- William Shakespeare

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

- Aristotle

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"I’ve learned that goodbyes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings."

"Goodbyes are not forever, goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again."

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

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

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

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

"True goodbyes are the ones never said."

- Unknown

"We started with a simple hello, but ended with a complicated goodbye."

- Unknown

"Encouragement, inspiration, and assistance: This is what we’ll always remember you for."

"Deal with what was. Be happy with what is. Be open to what is to come."

"We are very grateful for the support and guidance you gave us. We wish you abundant health and prosperity as well all the best for the next chapter in your life."

"Your positive spirit was contagious to your team and all those working under you. For this we thank you and want to let you know how much we will miss your presence and leadership."

"Thanks so much for the positive direction in which you steered this company. It will make all the difference in the future."

"We learned the principles of business not from a book or a university course, but from a walking, talking encyclopaedia! Thank you so much for what you taught us."

"You have been such a great mentor that we’ll be very sorry to see you go. The only positive thing about your departure is that other people can now learn from you as well."

"While other bosses gave targets and gave orders, you provided us with direction and vision. This is what we’ll remember you for."

"Goodbye isn’t painful, unless you’re never going to say hello again."

- Unknown

"Thank you for the many wonderful years!"

"We wish you all the best upon your departure! We’ll all miss you!"

"Although you must follow your own path, you must have the courage to change directions."

"Sometimes you must say goodbye to face new challenges and achieve new goals."

"We’ll miss your presence and aura. All the best for your next adventure."

"Life tells the most beautiful stories and every journey tells a new one."

"A farewell just draws out the moment of reunion."

"True friendship outlasts the pain of parting."

"Every farewell is a sunset that always awaits the sunrise."

"Nothing will be the same without you, but not to worry – you’ll always have a place in my heart."

"I wish you all the best because you deserve nothing less."