Top 40 Goodbye Quotes (2024 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

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

— A. A. Milne

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

— Garrison Keillor

4. “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

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

— Kiera Cass

6. “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

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

— Marjane Satrapi

8. “Where is the good in goodbye?”

— Meredith Willson

9. “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

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

— Cecelia Ahern

11. “Goodbye – Because I love you.”

— Kate Chopin

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

— Raymond Chandler

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

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

— Cassandra Clare

18. “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

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

— Chris Brown

20. “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

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

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Henry David Thoreau

23. “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

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

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

— Lauren Kate

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

— Alfred Tennyson

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Frank Sinatra

32. “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

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

— Sarah Dessen

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

— Walter Cronkite

36. “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

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37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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