Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.
~ William Shakespeare
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.
~ Portuguese Proverb
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
~ C. Day Lewis
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
~ Emily Dickinson
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?
~ Nicholas Rowe
We only part to meet again.
~ John Gay
Departure should be sudden.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.
~ Donald R. P. Marquis