Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

Isaac Asimov

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

Hugh Downs

If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

Ian Mcewan

I read in announcements of deaths 'peacefully in his sleep' and I wonder how many of those are true. Maybe they are just conventional. I hope they are true whenever I read it of someone. [But] I would rather be awake. Peacefully awake, brim full of some calming drug that was seeing me out of the door, having said my farewells.

R. A. Salvatore

Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.

Jorge Luis Borges

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

The mechanism of surcharges might be better than trying to put things in the fare because if fuel prices go up, the surcharge reflects that. We're going to have to learn to live with surcharges - it's not something we like to do but we do need to pass on some of these costs.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

John Avlon

But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'

Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

George MacDonald

Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL.

John Bunyan

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Lord Byron

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

John Keats

I always made an awkward bow.

Khalil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

Paulo Coelho

With every farewell comes a hidden hope.

Robert A. Heinlein

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Laura Nyro

Emily And her love to be Carved in a heart On a berry tree But it's only a little farewell lovespell Time to design a woman

Henrik Ibsen

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Haruki Murakami

So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

John Dryden

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

Peter S. Beagle

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

Roy Rogers

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Robin Hobb

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

Thomas de Quincey

Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated everlasting farewells!

Robert Burns

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

William Joyce

I say, Ich liebe Deutschland! Heil Hitler! and farewell.

William Butler Yeats

Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

Walter Savage Landor

The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.