Quotes about Parting
As his former ship moves off, Budd shouts, Good-bye to you too, old Rights-of-Man.
- Herman Melville
He said it without greeting, as if they had parted the day before. Because it took her a moment to regain the art of breathing, she realized for the first time how much that voice meant to her.
- Ayn Rand
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
- John Donne
The pain of a hard good-bye is the heart's tribute to the privilege to love.
- Beth Moore
But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.
- Joshua Harris
I love you too much to say goodbye.
- Lauren Kate
I must leave you, Claudia. 'Tis unlikely we will have another opportunity to speak alone again before tomorrow." His lips brushed against hers in a kiss so brief that it was over almost before she realized it began. "Do not kiss anyone else until then. I want you to save your kisses for me.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
- George Eliot
We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
- Samuel Johnson