Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. ~Jean Paul Richter
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown
Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn’t work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper
To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. ~Robert Southey
Can miles truly separate you from friends…. If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ~Richard Bach
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor
Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. ~William Cowper
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie