What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks disappearing? It's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road

And though you want to last forever/ You know you never will, You know you never will,/ And the good-bye makes the journey harder still. ~ Cat Stevens

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends. ~ Richard Bach

Goodbye-- please don’t cry/we both know that I’m not what you need/But I will always love you. ~ Dolly Parton

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is. ~ Janet Leigh

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye. ~ Ringo Starr

"It is never good dwelling on good-byes," she said, "it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting." ~ Elizabeth Bibesco

I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day. ~ Benjamin Spock

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. ~ Billy Joel

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again. ~ Jimi Hendrix

There’s a kind of release/and a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. ~ C. Day Lewis

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. ~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road

We only part to meet again. ~ John Gay