Edith Wharton Quotes

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

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

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

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.

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

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

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

To say goodbye is to die a little.

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.

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

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.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

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.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

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

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby.

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

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