Saying Goodby Quotes

Dor shook his head. "The phrase. What does it mean?"
Sarah wondered if he was kidding. "Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbye
and it's like no time passed at all?"
His eyes drifted. He liked it. "Time flies."
"With you," she added.
- Mitch Albom

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
- Mitch Albom

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy
- Jodi Picoult

A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.
- Cassandra Clare

Mizpah," he said.
She blinked at him, a little dazed. "What?"
"A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.
- Cassandra Clare

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.
- Ernest Hemingway

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever.
And yet.
I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.
- Nicole Krauss

It must happen to us all...We pack up what we've learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we'll ever know.
- Richard Bach

Never say good-bye because saying good-bye means going away and going away means forgetting.
- James M Barrie

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.
- Eva Braun

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
- Berkeley Breathed

Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said.
"Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues.
- Neal Shusterman

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
- Genevieve Gorder

I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.
- Sarah Dessen

It's hard to say goodbye to the place you've lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.
- Dennis Franz

...even saying good-bye isn't enough. There's always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There's always going to be that one missing piece.
- Mira Grant

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
- Philippa Gregory

If I'm at a party where I'm not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.
- Mindy Kaling

Of course I told him about you, Liesel said. She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it
- Markus Zusak

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.
- Markus Zusak

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.
- Ashly Lorenzana

Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again..
- Morgan Matson

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
- Daphne Du Maurier

He managed a single laugh. "Who would have thought from the first time we met that we'd be sitting here? You couldn't have told me three months ago that I'd be this miserable over saying goodbye to a girl."
My stomach sank. "I don't want you to be miserable."
"Then don't go.
- Jamie Mcguire

Who would have thought from the first time we met that we'd be sitting here? You couldn't have told me three months ago that I'd be this miserable over saying goodbye to a girl.
- Jamie Mcguire

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A A Milne

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
- David Mitchell

Keep hoping to see the light in her eyes. Even knowing it'll mean she's saying good-bye.
- Karen Marie Moning

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..
- Lorrie Moore

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

You can even get used to having a hole in your life where someone used to live. A hole where you thought they'd live for always, except that one day they just step sideways, without looking back or saying good-bye, and vanish forever.
- Sally Nicholls

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.
- Richard Obrien

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.
- Lauren Oliver

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
- Trey Parker

She's a nice girl, Tennessee said as a way of saying goodbye to them, as a way of saying thank you and I'm sorry, as a way of saying, I wish I had never let you go and I wish we had never met.
- Ann Patchett

Are you alright ?"
"You're still here."
"I won't leave you again without saying good-bye. Can't you sleep ?"
"I thought this was a dream.
- Sylvain Reynard

Why did everything feel like saying good-bye?
- Maggie Stiefvater

here we were again , always saying good-bye
- Maggie Stiefvater

It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.
- Angela Ruggiero

But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.
- Cynthia Rylant

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

It wasn't simply about the sex any longer, wasn't simply about assuaging the skin hunger that haunted them both. It was about saying good-bye to a dream that had never had a chance.
- Nalini Singh

The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.
- Sara Zarr