60 Goodbye quotes that'll help you understand farewells

60 Goodbye quotes that'll help you understand farewells. Here are the best goodbye quotes to read from famous people that will surely inspire you. Saying goodbye is the hardest thing to do, especially for the people you love and care about most. Whatever that situation or how sad it might be, bidding a farewell gives you a chance to move forward and welcome a new chapter of your life. May these saying goodbye quotes help you let go and realize that it's not the end of the world. When someone leaves, someone new will come, and that's how life is. Share these goodbye quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.

1. “Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” – Ritu Ghatourey

2. “Saying goodbye feels hard, for sure, but I am confident that it is a door through which we walk to bring us to another good chapter in our story together.” – Claudia Quigg

3. “You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.” – Cassandra Clare

4. “The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” – Moira Rogers

5. “Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye.” – Robert Braathe

6. “Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.” – Disney

7. “Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.” – Jean Paul Richter

8. “I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I've ever had to do.” – Colleen Hoover

9. “It feels right. But it's emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you've done that long is hard.” – Angela Ruggiero

10. “It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye.” – Carrie Underwood

11. “The hardest goodbyes are the ones that were never said and never explained, the ones where the story wasn't over.” – Virginia Brown

12. “Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.” – John Green

13. “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T. S. Eliot

14. “I did not realize that saying goodbye would be the most difficult thing I had to do in my life.” – Kay Duncan

15. “Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.” – Marcus Aurelius

16. “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.” – Leonard Nimoy

17. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Semisonic

18. “I think that you're supposed to know when it's time to say goodbye.” – Judy Sheindlin

19. “It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

20. “As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.” – Debbie Ford

21. “You know it’s love when you have been saying goodbye for how many times but still you’re not ready to leave.” – Anonymous

22. “I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.” – Mahershala Ali

23. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho

24. “Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.” – Cassandra Clare

25. “Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.” – Trey Parker

26. “Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest.” – Edin Dzeko

27. “It's so hard saying goodbye. It's hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.” – Saqib Saleem

28. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi

29. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

30. “It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.” – Jay Kristoff

31. “It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.” – T.C. Boyle

32. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne

33. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

34. “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach

35. “Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine

36. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey

37. “Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.” – Charles M. Schulz

38. “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” – Flavia Weedn

39. “So for now I say goodbye to this chapter of my life and I look forward to what comes next.” – Brooke Davis

40. “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” – George Elio

41. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France

42. “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end, may also be the beginning.” – Ivy Baker Priest

43. “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” – Jonathan Harnisch

44. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” – Dr. Suess

45. “They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” – Confucius

46. “Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.” – Anonymous

47. “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” – Helen Keller

48. “Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.” – Jean Paul Richter

49. “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” – Anonymous

50. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. “Saying goodbye to the living was hard enough; saying goodbye to the dead was an impossible task.” – Andrew Shaffer

52. “The only time goodbye is painful is when you know you’ll never say hello again.” – Anonymous

53. “Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.” – Anonymous

54. “I guess that’s part of growing up, too—saying good-bye to the things you used to love.” – Jenny Han

55. “Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.” – Anonymous

56. “There was something unfinished about not saying farewell, like a door left open in the chill night.” – Julie C. Dao

57. “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” – Kiera Cass

58. “If no one called you back when you left a place, then your decision to leave that place was precisely the right thing.” – Anonymous

59. “Saying goodbye is the hardest solution to any problem. But sometimes, it’s the only choice we have.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

60. “I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.” – Cecelia Ahern