16 Quotes To Help Get You Excited And Ready To Say Goodbye To 2016

“Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!”

— Ogden Nash, amazon.com

“Well, it’s twelve o’clock. Happy New Year, everyone. Yeah, excellent start to the year. Fantastic.”

— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com

“The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment.”

— Emily Griffin, amazon.com

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”

— Patricia Highsmith, nytimes.com

“New Year's Eve always terrifies me.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve.”

— PJ O'Rourke, telegraph.co.uk

“You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice ... the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri, amazon.com

“Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.”

— Alfred Tennyson, amazon.com

“Remember that you are capable of giving this time of year new meaning and new memories.”

— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com

“It's New Year's Eve, after all. The night for new beginnings.”

— Jenny Han, amazon.com

“New Year's eve is an ecstasy of new anticipation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, goodreads.com

“Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy.”

— Alex Morritt, amazon.com

“New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going--whether we know it or not, would deny it or not--by the kiss of a…”

— Jardine Libaire, amazon.com

“A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be peace on earth for one entire day.”

— Dorothea Benton Frank, amazon.com

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.”

— Robert Burns, amazon.com

“This is New Year's Eve. How about living it up a little?”

— Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Joe Gillis, William Holden, amazon.com