bittersweet departure Quotes

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

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.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

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.

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

When I was just about to leave, and when I realised that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning and do this again - that was probably the hardest thing for me. Leaving this family that I'd created on set, with all the cast and the crew was very sad for me.

There is nothing I will miss about Japanese baseball. Off the field, I will miss my dog.

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

There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.