27 Inspiring Farewell Quotes That Can Warm Your Heart

Moments of change often bring with them great emotion, especially if that moment is a farewell. Some of these quotes are reflections on permanent goodbyes, while others note the feeling of even a temporary parting. Some goodbyes bring pure sadness, while others carry with them a sense of gratitude or hope. Whether you’re trying to say goodbye to someone, reminiscing about a previous goodbye, or simply feeling nostalgic, these quotes are for you.

• "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying Goodbye so hard." - Winnie the Pooh • "Today, I close the door to my past. Open the door to the future, take a deep breath and step on through to start the next chapter in my life." - Unknown • "Even if you know what’s coming, you’re never prepared for how it feels." - Unknown • "Relax, enjoy yourself, try something new." - Unknown • "The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained." - Unknown • "You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them, but still move on without them." - Mandy Hale • "A memory last forever, never does it die, true friends stay together and never say goodbye." - Unknown • "And as you move on, remember me, remember us and all we used to be." - Unknown • "Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven." - Tryon Edwards • "Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it." - Trey Parker • "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell." - Edna St. Vincent Millay • "A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends." - Richard Bach • "If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." - Paulo Coelho • "Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be." - Walt Disney • "The return makes one love the farewell." - Louis de Musset • "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." - Khalil Gibran • "Some folks arrive into our lives and depart footprints on our hearts and we are in no way ever the very same." - Flavia Weedn • "The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye until we meet again." - Jimi Hendrix • "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 • "There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart." - Mahatma Gandhi • "The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last." - Moira Rogers • "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 • "Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends." - Unknown • "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens • "You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again." - Tom Petty • "Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds." - Emperor Saga • "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end." - Seneca