Top 50 Goodbye Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Family Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes

2. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Distance Quotes

3. “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

— Garrison Keillor

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Caring Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Communication Quotes

4. “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Character Quotes, Love Is Quotes

5. “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

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes, Missing Someone Quotes, Long Distance Relationship Quotes

6. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

7. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

8. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

— Mitch Albom

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Loss Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes

9. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

10. “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

— Douglas Adams

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11. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

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12. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Mind Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Loss Quotes

13. “When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Loss Quotes

14. “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

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Powerful Quotes

15. “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.”

— Kiera Cass

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Romantic Quotes, I Miss You Quotes

16. “Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes

17. “Nothing’s worse than saying goodbye. It’s a little like dying.”

— Marjane Satrapi

18. “Where is the good in goodbye?”

— Meredith Willson

Also featured in: Missing Someone Quotes

19. “I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

— Yann Martel

Also featured in: Letting Go Quotes, Hurt Quotes

20. “I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”

— Cecelia Ahern

21. “Goodbye – Because I love you.”

— Kate Chopin

22. “To say goodbye is to die a little.”

— Raymond Chandler

23. “The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”

— Raymond Chandler

24. “I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.”

— Stephen Chbosky

25. “I remember when we kissed. I still feel it on my lips. The time you danced with me with no music playing. I remember the simple things. I remember till I cry. But the one thing I wish I’d forget, the memory I wanna forget is goodbye.”

— Miley Cyrus

26. “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Moving Quotes, Travel Quotes

27. “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

— Cassandra Clare

28. “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

29. “There’s never a right time to say goodbye.”

— Chris Brown

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes

30. “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes

31. “The funny thing is you oddly don’t really say goodbye to all the characters you’ve played. There’s like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They’re always around. I’m not sure if that’s healthy. But they’re all there.”

— Johnny Depp

32. “May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.”

— Leonard Cohen

33. “True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.”

— Barbara Johnson

34. “I keep going till that pain says hello to me. I don’t say goodbye until that pain says hello. That’s a good set.”

— Greg Plitt

35. “In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we’d never meet again.”

— Willie Nelson

36. “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.”

— Tryon Edwards

37. “You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.”

— Augusten Burroughs

38. “I love you too much to say goodbye.”

— Lauren Kate

39. “Gone – flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.”

— Alfred Tennyson

40. “Here lies my past, Goodbye I have kissed it; Thank you kids, I wouldn’t have missed it.”

— Ogden Nash

41. “Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks – it says, Goodbye.”

— Frank Sinatra

42. “I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you good night – and there’s a lot of difference.”

— Ernest Hemingway

43. “Now I know who you are U got nothin’ on me, I see I should’ve known it from the start You can’t tell me lies Don’t even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye.”

— Demi Lovato

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44. “But all the love in the world won’t save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.”

— Sarah Dessen

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

— Walter Cronkite

46. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Depression Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

47. “If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I’d have pressed the button. I wouldn’t have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.”

— Terry Pratchett

48. “The reason I don’t tweet as much as I used to, is because I’m sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.”

— Zayn Malik

49. “Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.”

— Anders Zorn

50. “And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.”

— Erin Morgenstern