Farewell Quotes

• Where are they now, my nameless friends from those two years I spent in hell? What specters mock them now, amid the fury of Siberian snows, or in the blighted circle of the moon? To them I cry, Hail and Farewell! - March 1940

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Friends
  • Moon
  • March

• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Farewell

• Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Memorable
  • Dear

• Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Peace
  • Sleep
  • Farewell

• I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Arms
  • Satisfied

• My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Passion

• The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Time
  • Farewell

• Than farewell riches, the fat is in the fire, And neuer shall I to like riches aspire.

  

  John Heywood
  • Fire
  • Farewell

• When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

  

  Clark Gable
  • Question
  • Tears
  • Farewell

• I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Moving
  • Track
  • Disappear

• It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Farewell
  • Thee

• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Knows
  • Farewell

• We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Cool
  • Senior
  • Dinner

• Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

  

  Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
  • Together
  • Couple
  • Farewell

• Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

  

  John Milton
  • Happy
  • Fields
  • Farewell

• It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Rain
  • Nonsense
  • Farewell

• I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • See
  • I Know
  • Farewell

• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Fear
  • Eye
  • Weeping

• On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Farewell

• Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Weight
  • Farewell
  • Weary

• Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Arms
  • Discouraged

• Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • War
  • Ambition

• Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Death

• Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America.

  

  John McCain
  • God
  • Believe
  • America

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