Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

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.

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbyeWell I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary lifeI know I'm not perfect but I can smileand I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.

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.

Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be

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.

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, goodbye.

Why did everything feel like saying good-bye?

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

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

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In that last dance of chances When I bid your life goodbye I will hope she treats you kindly. I will hope you learn to fly. In that last dance of chances When I know you'll not be mine I will let you go with longing And the hope that you'll be fine. In that last dance of chances We shall know each other's minds. We shall part with our regrets When the tie no longer binds.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.