Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

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!

Mason Cooley

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be ahead of all farewells as if they were behind you, like the winter that is just departing.

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.

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.

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 Keats

I always made an awkward bow.

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.

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.

Lord Byron

Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

Gregg Popovich

You can only like the guy so much. After a while, it's 'OK, OK, we get it.' It's like a farewell tour.

The fare is too high. Most of the devotees who wanted to visit the shrine would not be in a position to pay this amount.

Jessamyn West

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Paul Auster

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Madonna Ciccone

Farewell Gaultier!! Preteporte will miss you! ❤ ❤ ❤ 4 ever

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Noam Chomsky

If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

Nikki Sixx

Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.

Marianne Williamson

The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

George Washington

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.

John Milton

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

John Milton

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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.

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.

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.