Partings Quotes

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Jean Paul Richter

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

Portuguese Proverb

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

We only part to meet again.

John Gay

Departure should be sudden.

Benjamin Disraeli

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

Donald R. P. Marquis