Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
We only part to meet again.
- John Gay
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
- Jean Paul Richter
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
- Emily Dickinson, "Parting"
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
- Unknown
Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
- Alfred Tennyson
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
- Ivy Baker Priest
Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.
- John Gay
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
Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.
- William Cowper
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
- Ben Jonson
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
- Edward Young
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
- Tryon Edwards
