Quotes about Parting

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Here, take this knife," he said. "I won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I'm giving you!" My inheritance …

His locked on hers, steady and intense. 'That was your last first kiss, Josephine Duprey,' he said softly.

You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan would have parted us, you, of your own will did it.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more. Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.