Quotes about Farewell
It's interesting that the original phrase in the late 1500s was "God be with Ye." The contraction of that phrase was "Goodbwye" which eventually became "goodbye."….. I wonder, when Jesus watched the rich young ruler walk away, what was the look in His eyes? I wonder, when Peter denied Jesus and abandoned Him just before Jesus went to the cross, what was the goodbye like?
- Lysa TerKeurst
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:—do I wake or sleep?
- John Keats
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
- John Milton
Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!
- John Owen
There was an embrace in death.
- Virginia Woolf
Judith watched them drive away
- Lauraine Snelling
Judith watched them drive away
- Lauraine Snelling
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
- Charles Dickens
the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;
- Charles Dickens
Go in peace. Mizpah." "Mizpah? I know what that means." "Tell me, son," he said, biting on his lower lip. "The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
- Og Mandino
Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.
- Cormac McCarthy
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This... is goodbye. But not our last hello.
- Charles Martin