But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. – Edward Young
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. – John Dryden
Where is the good in goodbye? – Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)
Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. – Henry Fielding
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. – Anna Brownell Jameson
Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave. – A.A.Milne
As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. – Alcibiades
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. – Elizabeth Bowen
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. – François VI de la Rochefoucault
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. – Tryon Edwards
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. – Helen Rowland
The return makes one love the farewell. – Alfred De Musset
May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. – Irish Toast
If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. – Claudia Adrienne Grandi
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. – Alan Alda
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! – Robert Pollok
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? – Nicholas Rowe
Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. – William Shakespeare
