190 Saying Goodbye Quotes for the Difficult Moments

Are you looking for good quotes about saying goodbye? You’re in the right spot! We have gathered the best quotes about farewells and how to say goodbye.

Whether you are saying goodbye to a loved one, a friend, or a job you enjoyed, these quotes can help you during hard times.

Keep reading to find your favorite goodbye quote!

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Short Saying Goodbye Quotes

1# “Goodbyes, they often come in waves” – Jarod Kintz

2# “Saying goodbye is very emotional” – Lukas Podolski

3# “Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest” – Edin Dzeko

4# “For every goodbye, God also provides a hello” – Donna Gable Hatch

5# “Saying goodbye is a little like dying” – Marjane Satrapi

6# “Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head” – Jamie McGuire

7# “The hardest day is the day you say goodbye” – Karen Maezen Miller

8# “The easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.” ― Phil Knight

9# “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ― A. A. Milne

10# “I’ll kiss the game goodbye when I no longer have the passion and love for it.” ― Jadakiss

11# “When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.” ― George Gobel

12# “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” ― Helen Rowland

13# “The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” ― Moira Rogers

14# “I loved ‘Goodbye to Language’.” ― Richard Linklater

15# “Goodbyes – they often come in waves.” ― Jarod Kintz

16# “Goodbye always makes my throat hurt.” ― Charlie Brown

17# “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” ― Paulo Coelho

18# “It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye.” ― Carrie Underwood

19# “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ― J.M. Barrie

20# “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — “Winnie The Pooh” by A.A. Milne

21# “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho

22# “So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” — Brooke Davis

23# “Goodbye…? Oh no, please. Can’t we go back to page one and do it all over again?” — “Winnie The Pooh” by A.A. Milne

24# “Goodbye doesn’t mean the end. It only means that I will return or see you some other time. Take the sky, for example, the sun tells the sky goodbye when it gets dark only to return the next day once it is bright.” — Frank Alile

25# “Bye and bye we shall say goodbye.” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

26# “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” — Helen Rowland

27# “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” — Trey Parker

28# “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” — Rumi

29# “The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” — Moira Rogers

30# “Goodbye too painful a word to utter, we part in silence.” ― Melanie A. Smith

31# “It is foolish to walk away when you have so much love in your heart.” ― Nancy Omar

32# “Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.” ― Angie Thomas

33# “I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.” ― Maggie Stiefvater

34# “So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” ― Brooke Davis

35# “Love me, even if it’s a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye.” ― Faraaz Kazi

36# “I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love.” ― Jenny Han

37# “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” ― George Elio

38# “I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope’s disappointment.” ― David Levithan

Goodbyes Are Always Hard Quotes

39# “Bye and bye we shall say goodbye.” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

40# “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” — Helen Rowland

41# “I didn’t think saying goodbye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—We’ll face it together. To whatever end.” — Sarah J. Maas

42# “Saying goodbye is a little like dying.” — Marjane Satrapi

43# “It’s hard to say goodbye, to those we become fond of and even more difficult to say hello to those we don’t love.” – Julie Hebert

44# “Saying goodbye to someone you love is difficult. However, if the goodbye is only for a short time we come to appreciate our loved one more especially when they come home.” – Catherine Pulsifer

45# “Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.” – Angie Thomas

46# “Saying goodbye is not as easy as it sounds. Saying goodbye requires us to make our loss a memory.” – Donnie D. Davis

47# “Goodbye is the saddest word I ever heard, goodbye is the last time I will hold you near.” — Celine Dion

48# “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” — Ernie Harwell

49# “I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying goodbye to the things you used to love.” — Jenny Han

50# “When I had to say goodbye to you, my love, it was like saying goodbye to my life.” — Unknown

51# “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.” — Nicholas Sparks, “The Notebook”

52# “Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

53# “No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.” — Terry Pratchett

54# “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” — Ritu Ghatourey

55# “Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.” — Kim Harrison

56# “It’s not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow.” — Unknown

57# “Every goodbye always makes the next hello closer.” — Unknown

Time to Say Goodbye Quotes

58# “It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.” ― Angela Ruggiero

59# “Saying goodbye is the hardest solution to any problem. But sometimes, it’s the only choice we have.” ― Anurag Prakash Ray

60# “Saying goodbye to the living was hard enough; saying goodbye to the dead was an impossible task.” ― Andrew Shaffer

61# “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” ― Jonathan Harnisch

62# “Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye.” ― Robert J. Braathe

63# “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” ― Trey Parker

64# “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” ― Ernie Harwell

65# “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” ― Ritu Ghatourey

66# “The art of parting is a painful sketch; each goodbye a stroke of memory’s brush.”

67# “Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.” — Tom Stoppard

68# “Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodbye till it be morrow.” — William Shakespeare

69# “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. For those who love with heart and soul, there is no separation.” — Rumi

70# “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” — T.S. Eliot

71# “A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.”

72# “Sometimes, you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”

73# “Though we may part ways, each step forward will echo our shared past.”

74# “The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?” — Nicholas Rowe

75# “Saying goodbye is a glimpse of the void, but every farewell holds the promise of a new beginning.”

76# “The finale of every year is a time to say goodbye to one year and welcome the coming of a new one. A blessed year may it be.” ― Kate Summers

77# “I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.” ― J.D. Salinger

78# “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.” ― Saqib Saleem

79# “I wonder how people say goodbye to someone forever? Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.” ― Ovid

80# “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” ― Frederick Buechner

81# “Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.” ― Nicholas Sparks

82# “The pain of a hard goodbye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love.” ― Beth Moore

83# “The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye…until we meet again.” ― Jimi Hendrix

84# “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi

85# “Goodbyes teach us the value of moments and the transient nature of togetherness.”

86# “Sometimes the hardest goodbyes are the ones that are never said, never explained.”

87# “Each goodbye peels back the curtain of our comfort, urging us to embrace new horizons.”

88# “Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

89# “Leaving is not just a sign of goodbye but a promise of a new hello.”

90# “Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I’m afraid to be happy. I shouldn’t be happy. If I’m happy without you does that mean I’ve told you goodbye?” ― Donna Lynn Hope

91# “I don’t think that I could ever say goodbye to you… Not even if you said it to me.” ― Jaimie Roberts

92# “Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.” ― James Crumley

93# “Also, I suppose 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, after all.” ― Stephen King

94# “Things don’t so much end as disappear. They don’t so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don’t just mean the dying.” ― Rachel Joyce

95# “Goodbye is the echo of lost voices, the silence that speaks louder than words.”

96# “A parting is the first step to a new meeting, the hopeful horizon after a heartfelt goodbye.”

97# “Every farewell combines loss and new freedom, pain and possibility.”

98# “To say goodbye is to release the future that awaits us both.”

99# “The beauty of goodbye is the invitation to a new beginning, cloaked in the mystery of uncertainty.”

100# “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” ― Wendy Wunder

101# “Love them like you’ve come to the hospital to see them and this is the last time before they say goodbye.” ― Nitya Prakash

102# “No matter what we do or how hard we try to stop, everything flies. One day too will leave us without saying goodbye.” ― Bhuwan Thapaliya

103# “I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come – We’ll face it together. To whatever end.” ― Sarah J. Maas

104# “Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.” ― Jean Dubuffet

105# “A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.” ― Meghan O’Rourke

106# “The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That’s part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.” ― Taya Kyle

107# “The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.” ― Conor Oberst

108# “And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new stories.” ― Crestless Wave

109# “Saying good-bye when you know it’s for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.” — Allison DuBois

110# “Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway… missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.” ― Jamie McGuire

111# “It’s always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time – literally years, in the case of a series – inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.” ― Lilith Saintcrow

112# “My mouth could say goodbye, but not with my heart.” ― Restu Ilahi

Goodbye Quotes for Couples

113# “I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.” ― Colleen Hoover

114# “You should kiss me like it’s goodbye.” ― Andrew Sean Greer

115# “Do not leave without saying goodbye.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

116# “If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.” ― Amit Kalantri

117# “Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.” ― Shannon A. Thompson

118# “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks

119# “The forecast is we kiss goodbye and never hello; all kisses are then parting kisses.” ― Saul Williams

120# “Dear me! How little I thought when I said good-bye to her that I should never see her again!” — Angela Brazil

121# “I’ll miss you’, she said with a tear in her eye. Then she gave me a kiss and whispered, ‘Goodbye.” — Freida Wishinsky

122# “Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.” — Unknown

**123 “It’s not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow.” — Unknown

124# “We only part to meet again.” — John Gay

125# “No goodbye is ever painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.” — Unknown

126# “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.” — Rumi

127# “Sometimes, goodbye is just a painful way to say ‘I love you.'” — Unknown

128# “A goodbye isn’t ever painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.” — Unknown

129# “Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.” — Unknown

130# “One day at a time, this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” — Ida Scott Taylor

131# “I have learned along my journey that letting go doesn’t mean loving less.” — Alex Elle

Saying Goodbye Quotes for Friends

132# “Friends come and go, but the best ones stay in your heart.”

133# “Goodbyes are hard, but knowing you’re a friend forever makes it easier.”

134# “Distance may separate us, but friendship keeps us close.”

135# “When I was thinking of you I realized all the positive influences you had on my life, thank you.” ― B. Rivers

136# “Adult friendships are hard. Everyone is busy, and life happens. I’ve learned you gotta text people when you’re thinking of them. A simple ‘Thinking of you, hope all is well,’ really goes a long way.” — Rob Lowe

137# “If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” ― Winnie the Pooh

138# “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” ― Dodinsky

139# “The best friends are the ones who make you feel at home, even when you’re far away.”

140# “I’m grateful for the memories we’ve made and the adventures we’ve shared.”

141# “Even though we’re parting, our friendship will always hold a special place in my heart.”

142# “Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.” ― Mariella Frostrup

143# “If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” ― George MacDonald

144# “It was never easy to say goodbye to a friend. Even if that friend had been a monster.” ― Kayla Krantz

145# “Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.” ― Ouida

146# “You and I will meet again, when we’re least expecting it, one day in some far-off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, for you and I will meet again.” ― Tom Petty

147# “Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

148# “I’m not crying. You’re crying. I’m just sweating profusely from all the happiness we’ve shared.”

149# “Don’t worry, I’ll be back to visit… eventually. Maybe.”

150# “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” ― Helen Keller

151# “We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.” ― Caroline Norton

152# “Best friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

153# “I’m not saying goodbye, I’m just saying see you later. Hopefully soon.”

154# “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” ― Robert Southey

155# “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ― Henry David Thoreau

156# “So, old friends, now it’s time to start growing up, taking charge, seeing things as they are, facing facts, not escaping them, still with dreams, just reshaping them, growing up.” ― Stephen Sondheim

157# ““Goodbye” is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say “no” to what always keeps you static!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

Saying Farewell Quotes

158# “The return makes one love the farewell.” ― Alfred de Musset

159# “Farewell or Goodbye it really doesn’t matter it shows one magic. If you find it, you are a magician!” ― Deyth Banger

160# “Man’s feelings are always purest and many glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” ― Jean Paul Richter

161# “Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.” ― Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

162# “Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.” ― John Dryden

163# “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.” ― John Steinbeck

164# “Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.” ― Walt Disney

165# “Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.” – Guy de Maupassant

166# “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca

167# “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” – William Shakespeare

168# “The only time goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again.” – Unknown

169# “May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back.” – Irish Blessing

170# “Good luck to you, even so. Farewell! But if you only knew, down deep, what pains are fated to fill your cup before you reach that shore.” ― Homer

171# “It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre

172# “Now that you’ve said hello, I’m afraid we move right into farewells. Hello, goodbye. Like flowers scattered in a storm, man’s life is one long farewell, as they say.” ― Haruki Murakami

173# “Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” ― Richard Bach

174# “This is not a goodbye, my darling, this a thank you.” – Nicholas Sparks

175# “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” – Jean Paul Richter

176# “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

177# “Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.” – Unknown

178# “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

179# “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach

180# “A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach

181# “Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing.” – William Shakespeare

182# “Goodbyes, they often come in waves.” – Jarod Kintz

183# “It’s been an incredible ride. Mission accomplished. With that, I have to bid farewell. I’m the happiest person in the world right now. It’s better than I ever thought it would be.” ― Jerome Bettis

184# “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” ― Tryon Edwards

185# “I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it’s also we’re saying farewell at each moment to something.” ― Kevin Hart

186# “A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.” – Unknown

187# “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” – George Eliot

188# “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

189# “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi

190# “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White

191# “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne