140+ Unexpected Goodbye Quotes For Coworkers, Friends, Family

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I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. We have shared the unexpected goodbye quotes for farewell sayings. Check out the following best goodbye quotes that will be helpful for you.

What is the hardest goodbye?

The hardest goodbye is the one that is said to someone we deeply love and care about, and with whom we have a strong emotional bond. This can be a close family member, a lifelong friend, a romantic partner, or a beloved pet.

The difficulty of saying goodbye to someone we love and care about deeply is often compounded by the fact that it may be a final goodbye, such as in the case of a terminal illness or unexpected tragedy.

The hardest goodbye is also one that may be accompanied by a sense of regret, unspoken feelings, or unresolved issues. We may wish we had said or done things differently, or we may be grappling with the pain of losing someone before we were ready to let them go.

In such situations, it is important to allow ourselves to feel our emotions and to seek support from loved ones, friends, or professionals if needed. We can also find comfort in focusing on the positive memories and experiences we shared with the person and in honoring their legacy through our own actions and values.

Best Goodbye Quotes For Farewell Sayings

1. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. - Helen Rowland

2. We'll meet again, Don't know where, don't know when, But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day. - Vera Lynn

3. History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' - Maggie Rogers

4. 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

5. Farewell, they cried, 'Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!' That is the polite thing to say among eagles. - J.R.R. Tolkien

6. I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. - Colleen Hoover

7. Farewell, all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.- Donald Cargill

8. Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. - J.M. Barrie

9. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. - Flavia Weedn

10. Don’t be dismayed by 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

11. 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

12. Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted. - Ritu Ghatourey

13. It's not the goodbye that hurts, but the flashbacks that follow. - Anonymous

14. 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

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Famous Goodbye Quotes To Colleagues for Farewell

15. Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave. - A.A. Milne

16. If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. - Paulo Coelho

17. This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. - Nicholas Sparks

18. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation. - Rumi

19. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

20. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. -Charles Dickens

21. Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. -Dr. Seuss

22. Parting is such sweet sorrow. - William Shakespeare

23. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation? - Khalil Gibran

24. Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park.

Final Goodbye Quotes For Everyone

25. It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. - Ernie Harwell

26. Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. - Richard Bach

27. There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meager scraps we can find. - Richard K. Morgan

28. Two of the greatest predictors of success are the ability to say hello and the ability to say goodbye. - Robert J. Braathe

29. Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again. - Anonymous

30. Man’s feelings are always purest and many glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell. - Jean-Paul Richter

31. The finale of every year is a time to say goodbye to one year and welcome the coming of a new one. A blessed year may it be. - Kate Summers

32. Goodbyes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say goodbye to; this hurts, you feel, and this must not happen again. - Elizabeth Bowen

33. Shake hands with today; it is here already. Bid farewell to yesterday; it's gone already. Never let yesterday's pain rob you of today's gains. Drive yourself positively! - Israelmore Ayivor

34. Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. - Tryon Edwards

35. Follow your dreams, work hard, practice, and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy lifestyle. - Sasha Cohen

36. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. - Flavia Weedn

37. I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all. - Christopher McCandless

38. Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. - Trey Parker

39. It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time literally years, in the case of a series—inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them. - Lilith Saintcrow

Short Goodbye Quotes For Farewell Sayings

40. The return makes one love the farewell. - Alfred de Musset

41. The only way to say goodbye is to say it from the heart. - Anonymous

42. So long, see you around, but never a final goodbye. - Fred Flagler

43. Nothing hurts like a hostile farewell. - Regina Jennings

44. I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. - Christa McAuliffe

45. For every goodbye, God also provides a hello. - Donna Gable Hatch

46. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. - Charles Dickens

47. You had me at hello, goodbye, and everything in between. - Shannon L. Alder

48. Every farewell combines loss and new freedom. - Mason Cooley

49. Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. - Dave Mustaine

50. You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. - Kiera Cass

51. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. - Semisonic

52. We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye. - Anonymous

53. You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you. - Kiera Cass

54. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. - Garrison Keillor

55. The pain of a hard goodbye is the heart’s tribute to the privilege to love. - Beth Moore

56. Not for everyone, the darkest night is bid farewell by a bright sunrise. - Saud Khan

57. Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Saying Goodbye Quotes to Help You Offer Mindful Farewells

58. The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

59. Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs, and road songs. - Tom Waits

60. Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you've had, what you've lost, and what you've taken for granted. - Anonymous

61. 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 goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. - Charles M. Schulz

62. Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you've had, what you've lost, and what you've taken for granted. - Ritu Ghatourey

63. We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities. - Marcus Buckingham

64. Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you until we meet again. - Anonymous

65. A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost. - John Burroughs

66. Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. - J.M. Barrie

67. The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. - Nicholas Sparks

68. No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect. - Terry Pratchett

69. There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. - Mahatma Gandhi

70. A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. - Helen Rowland

71. When I mount the scaffold, at last, these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything. - H. L. Mencken

72. Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. -Dr. Seuss

73. The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last. - Moira Rogers

74. Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. - Jean-Paul Richter

75. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan

Thank You and Goodbye Quotes For Friends

76. Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. - Henry David Thoreau

77. Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another anymore till at the right hand of Christ. - Donald Cargill

78. You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. - E.B. White

79. 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

80. Yesterday brought the beginning, and tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends. - Anonymous

81. Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say “See you soon. - Anonymous

82. Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles, it’s measured by the heart. - Anonymous

83. That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell. - Robert Pollok

84. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - A.A. Milne

85. Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. - J.M. Barrie

86. Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again. - Anonymous

87. 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

88. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. - Helen Keller

89. Don’t be dismayed by 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

Saddest Goodbye Quotes For Family

90. I can’t remember all the times I told myself to hold on to these moments as they pass. - Counting Crows

91. It’s not the days in life we remember, but rather the moments. - Walt Disney

92. Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of times. - Styx

93. Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. - Flavia Weedn
 
94. The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back. - Wendy Wunder

95. It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. - Ernie Harwell

96. If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. - Paulo Coelho

97. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. - Anatole France

98. Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted. - Ritu Ghatourey

99. It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. - Carrie Underwood

Unexpected Goodbye Quotes For Coworkers and Colleagues

100. 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

101. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. - Semisonic
 
102. True friends don’t say goodbye, they just take extended leaves of absence from each other. - Anonymous

103. This is the beginning of anything you want. - Anonymous

104. Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

105. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius

106. Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. - William Shakespeare

107. Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you've had, what you've lost, and what you've taken for granted. - Anonymous

108. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. - Mahatma Gandhi

Funny Goodbye Quotes For Coworkers and Colleagues

109. Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. - J.D. Salinger

110. Bye, Felicia. - Ice Cube

111. It is so hard to leave until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world. - John Green

112. I’ll miss you until you come back but I hope you’ll make up for it by getting me awesome gifts. - Bon voyage.

113. So long, and thanks for all the fish. - Douglas Adams

 

114. See You Later Alligator. - Bill Haley and the Comets

115. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde

116. We are really going to miss trying to avoid you around here. - Anonymous

117. I’ll see you in another life. When we are both cats. - Tom Cruise

118. I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little. - Cecelia Ahern

Saying Goodbye Quotes For Lover

119. Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. -George Elio

120. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation. - Rumi

121. You know it’s love when you have been saying goodbye how many times but still, you’re not ready to leave. - Anonymous

122. 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

123. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. - A.A. Milne

124. The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back. - Wendy Wunder

125. The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last. - Moira Rogers

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Other Goodbye Quotes For Farewell

126. We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset. - Charles Lichenstein

127. Life is a journey, not a destination. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

128. We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye. - Anonymous

129. The return makes one love the farewell. - Alfred de Musset
 

130. Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds. - Emperor Saga

131. Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Goodbye is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties the past to the future. - John Steinbeck

132. Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. - Trey Parker

133. Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. - Jonathan Harnisch

Rest In Peace Final Goodbye Death Quotes

    
134. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

135. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. - William Shakespeare

136. Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. - Mother Teresa

137. Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I'll miss you until we meet again. - Anonymous

138. Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow. - Anonymous

139. Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity. - Terri Guillemets

140. The song is ended but the melody lingers on. - Irving Berlin

141. The best way to remember someone who has passed away is to remember them with a smile. - Anonymous

142. To live in the hearts of those we love is never to die. - Thomas Campbell

143. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - Anonymous


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