“Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.”— Allison DuBois, amazon.com
“You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.”— Rachel Joyce, amazon.com
“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”— Jonathan Harnisch, amazon.com
“It's not the good-bye that matters. What matters is that you're never going to be able to say anything else to them. And you're left with an eternal unfinished conversation.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.com
“She hated saying goodbye forever. It felt so permanent. And who knew where life would take her in the future?”— Michelle Madow, amazon.com
“Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.”— Jamie McGuire, amazon.com
“I guess saying goodbye makes us reach out for those we would ordinarily ignore. Maybe we care about them more, too, when it is time to part.”— Kyung-Sook Shin, amazon.com
“A ‘hello again’ after the final goodbye is sometimes harder than just keeping the goodbye as it was.”— Jessiqua Wittman, amazon.com
“I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Goodbyes are always difficult. No one ever taught me what to do when things end.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“After the conversation has gone on for a while, say how much you enjoy talking with him/her and say you hope the two of you can meet again at a later date.”— The Love Queen, thelovequeen.com
“Say goodbye to all the words people told you about yourself, the ones that made you love yourself a little less. Think of how little these people know about you and your story or why you are the way you are. Think of how some people like to belittle others to feel good about themselves, and while yo…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com