Mitch Albom Quotes

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

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

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

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

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.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

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.

This is a lifetime of good-byes. In our time, we will say good-bye to cherished people, things, and ideas. Eventually, we say good-bye to life itself with our death. Learn to say a good good-bye. Allow yourself to mourn each loss. As with a physical wound, the body has its own schedule for healing. It will tell you when it has healed.

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.

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.

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

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

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

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

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

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.