Good Byes Quotes

“Good-byes hurt. And they happen too much. The only thing I know for certain about this whole good-bye thing? You have to say it sometimes. You have to get real brave, and bite your bottom lip, and let people go sometimes. Fully, fully. Whether you feel ready or not, you're still going to grow up and use that word a lot more than you ever expected to.”
― Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

“Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Beauty of Darkness

“...she had wondered which was worse: the sudden good-bye you know is a good-bye or the long good-bye you have to guess.”
― Rachel Simon, The Story of Beautiful Girl

“When you're the first, you don't get to be the last, too. Not usually.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“The end is the end no matter when it happens. Waiting only makes it hurt more.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland

“And now at the airport, after shaking hands with everybody, waving good-bye, I think about all the different ways we leave people in this world. Cheerily waving good-bye to some at airports, knowing we'll never see each other again. Leaving others on the side of the road, hoping that we will. Finding my mother in my father's story and saying good-bye before I have a chance to know her better.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“I go, but I always remember you.”
― Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

“I have to know if you believe in second chances—because I do, even if they do come with good-byes.”
― Laura Miller, By Way of Accident

“I picture my pain separated into fragments. Instead of getting pierced with a giant knife that has the potential to kill, I'll just be stabbed occasionally with razor blades. So when he finally leaves me for good, and the last cut is inflicted, I'll be used to the pain.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“Good-byes are sad, but they don't have to be. We always knew we'd be moving on, we just never understood what it took to do it, and what we got to take from the people and places we left.”
― Alexis Bass, Love and Other Theories

“A good-bye is a good-bye whether it's a long one or not.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland

“She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more.”
― Yōko Tawada, The Emissary