Parting Quotes

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

~ Charlotte Brontë

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

~ George Eliot

To say goodbye is to die a little.

~ Raymond Chandler

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

~ Jack Kerouac

Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

~ Arthur Golden

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

~ Donna Goddard

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

~ Stephen Schwartz

Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

~ Yoshida Kenkō

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

~ Boris Pasternak

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

~ Sol Luckman

Death and parting are the same.

~ Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

Something or someone is always waving goodbye.

~ Marty Rubin

Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.” (Laurus, p. 30)

~ Eugene Vodolazkin

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

~ William Shakespeare

I said uselessly, Sam, don't go.Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.

~ Kristin Cashore

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

~ Frank Herbert

She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him

~ Maggie O'farrell

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.

~ Jeff Thomas

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.

~ Jane Austen

New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part.

~ C.s. Lewis

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

~ Emily Dickinson

Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!Dalek: The Dalek strategem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.The Doctor: Oh really? Why's that, then?Dalek: We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated. The Doctor: No.Dalek: Explain yourself.The Doctor: I said, No.Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?The Doctor: It means, No.Dalek: But she will be destroyed!The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rescue her. I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth. And then—just to finish off—I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!Dalek: But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan.The Doctor: Yeah! And doesn't that scare you to death? Rose?Rose: Yes, Doctor?The Doctor: I'm coming to get you.

~ Russell T. Davies

I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

~ Mitch Albom

I wished I had told her what I was doing. I wished I had said more, argued more. Maybe then I wouldn't have this hollow ache in my chest whenever I thought of our parting words. Had she already moved on, forgotten me? In her position, what she said made sense, but the thought of her with someone else made me wish I had something to fight, to kill, just so I could forget.

~ Julie Kagawa

Yes Said Gandalf; for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of out 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

They embraced in parting. There were tears in the merchant’s eyes:“I do not like parting.”“Life consists of partings,” said Arseny. “But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that.”“But I would (the merchant Vladislav blew his nose) gather up all the good people I’ve met and never let them go.”“I think then they would quickly become mean,” smiled Ambrogio. (p. 238)

~ Evgenij Vodolazkin

Good-bye and hello, as always.

~ Roger Zelazny

I have more care to staythan will to go.

~ William Shakespeare

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

~ Kahlil Gibran

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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

~ Tryon Edwards

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

In every parting there is an image of death.

~ George Eliot