“It was no use now. It was no use trying to capture what had gone. What had fled.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you’re brave enough to say ‘goodbye’ life will reward you with a new ‘hello.’”— Paulo Coelho, facebook.com
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”— banksy, blogs.stlukesct.org
“I wanted to look ahead to where I was going, not back at what I was leaving, but then I turned anyway.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“I am not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“Saying goodbye was like inhaling oxygen like a knot wrapped around my ribs untying, loosening, releasing, opening, learning to breathe again.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You leave because your heart will ache if you stay even if your bones will ache when you go.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Maybe you leave because you long to know. Maybe you leave not because of longing but because you must. Or maybe you leave simply to find the answers you’ve held inside of you all along.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people.”— Osho, amazon.com
“You can’t tell people to go and then blame them for leaving.”— Jenji Kohan, Erica Jones, Constance Shulman, imdb.com
“You did everything to make him stay. But, darling, tell me, what did he do to not leave?”— Disha, instagram.com
“Don’t let their leaving make you bitter. Don’t let their leaving make you stop believing.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Go, even though you love him. Go, even though you can't imagine your life without him. Go, even though you're afraid of being alone.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Turn their leaving into a new beginning. Turn their leaving into starting over. Turn their leaving into new kinds of love and new kinds of magic.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Know that you did all you could to save the relationship. And now it’s time to save yourself.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Saying goodbye is always hard, and it never gets easier no matter how many times you say it.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.”— Richard K. Morgan, amazon.com
“I choose losing you over losing myself and I would rather be abandoned by you than be abandoned by me.”— Farah Ayaad, thoughtcatalog.com