Goodbye Quotes

‘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

‘The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.” – Eduardo Galeano

‘That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said, ‘Goodbye’.’ – Richard Armour

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

‘Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest.’ – Edin Dzeko

‘I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all!’ – Christopher McCandless

‘A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.’ – Helen Rowland

‘I love cafe culture, art and intellect, the long hello and sweet goodbye.’ – Melody Gardot

‘Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.’ – Meghan O’Rourke

‘When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.’ – W. Bruce Cameron

‘It’s so hard saying goodbye… it’s hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.’ – Saqib Saleem

‘I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‘Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.’ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.’ – Nancy Wake

‘It feels right. But it’s emotional. Saying goodbye to anything you’ve done that long is hard.’ – Angela Ruggiero

‘I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I’ll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.’ – Dennis Franz

‘When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me.’ – Mary Karr

‘Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.’ – Jean Dubuffet

‘I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I’ve always wanted to do.’ – Mahershala Ali

‘The last thing I say on most phone calls is not, ‘Goodbye,’ but, ‘Thank you.” – Marshall Goldsmith

‘Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.’ – Ouida

‘I think that you’re supposed to know when it’s time to say goodbye.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.’ – Snoop Dogg

‘We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it’s what we were born to do.’ – Grace Gealey

‘I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the last day of shooting… and thinking how sad I was to be saying goodbye to Edward.’ – Johnny Depp

‘I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.’ – Alison Goldfrapp

‘It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, ‘Goodbye,’ but it didn’t work out that way.’ – Chuck Noll

‘I really don’t want to say goodbye to any of you people.’ – Christa McAuliffe

‘Once you become an actor, you have to say goodbye to your personal life.’ – Vijay Deverakonda

‘If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.’ – Douglas Tompkins

‘Top of my head is Rey Mysterio Jr. He is one of my best friends, fantastic wrestler, and a real-life legend. He would be the perfect person to do a world tour to say goodbye.’ – Alberto Del Rio

‘After more than 50 years of broadcasting on ‘CBS News’ and ’60 Minutes,’ I have decided to retire. It’s been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.’ – Morley Safer

‘Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.’ – Clive Barker

‘Lacey didn’t like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.’ – Sydney Schanberg

‘Now I’m seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It’s gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I’m scared I might be a celebrity.’ – William Petersen

‘Money talks, and when it starts to say goodbye, humans listen and act accordingly.’ – Andy Dunn

‘I’d like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.’ – Patsy Cline

‘When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.’ – Denis Diderot

‘I used to get quite upset that I’d make friends with a guy or a girl and then within the space of three years we’d move and go and live somewhere else, and you’d have to say goodbye to that person.’ – Dominic Monaghan

‘Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.’ – Anders Zorn

‘I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.’ – David Friedman

‘And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.’ – Gerald Scarfe

‘Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.’ – Richard O’Brien

‘I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family’s right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family’s last goodbye is not it.’ – Dave Reichert

‘I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I’d be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation.’ – Greg Norman

‘And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it’s all done. It really breaks you.’ – Genevieve Gorder

‘I’ve got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, and ‘I’m pregnant’.’ – Dean Martin

‘I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.’ – Helle Thorning-Schmidt

‘I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That’s how much the bank meant to my father.’ – Alexi Giannoulias

‘I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.’ – Berkeley Breathed

‘I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it’s time to say goodbye.’ – Gary Sheffield

‘I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.’ – George Michael

‘The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I’m going to work every single day, I don’t think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!’ – Mindy Kaling

‘Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.’ – Muhammad Yunus

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

‘I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.’ – Jane Fonda

‘The reason I don’t tweet as much as I used to, is because I’m sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.’ – Zayn Malik

‘Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I’ve always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.’ – Robert Plant

‘When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn’t.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.’ – Elisabetta Canalis

‘I’ve met so many fans of daytime television who’ve watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they’ve known the characters their whole lives. It’s sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don’t want that to happen to the ‘Days’ fans.’ – Alison Sweeney

‘I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.’ – Henning Mankell

‘Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it’s a really rich sort of place to grab stories from… people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before… it never ends in terms of story opportunities.’ – Mary McCormack

‘Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, ‘No, you lied to me. Goodbye.’ When they see wickedness, they walk away.’ – Lorrie Moore

‘When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don’t belong in a psych ward, I don’t think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.’ – Lois Lowry

‘We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘I’ve been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled – after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at ‘OLTL.’ It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.’ – Michael Easton

‘I was always prepared for my ‘Fringe’ journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a ‘Fringe’ episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.’ – Seth Gabel

‘It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.’ – Joseph O’Neill

”The Long Goodbye’ is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for ‘All The Wrong Questions’.’ – Daniel Handler

‘When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.’ – George Gobel

‘Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.’ – Josephine de La Baume

‘I like ‘Goodbye My Lover’ because it’s a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady’s bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It’s so close to what I can imagine.’ – James Blunt

‘I’m very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they’re legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.’ – Rich Sommer

‘The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colorful bills of particular nations, featuring pictures of national heroes of statecraft, culture and the arts, pictures celebrating unique national narratives. With the euro, 16 nations have said goodbye to all that.’ – George Will

‘I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.’ – Don Everly

‘I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it’s kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.’ – Conor Oberst

‘My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking – the result of a car crash – and I never got to say goodbye.’ – Dani Shapiro

‘Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.’ – Philip Baker Hall

”Five, Six, Seven, Nate!’ opens on my 13-year-old protagonist packing up a duffel bag and bidding his Midwestern town goodbye, heading off to start rehearsals for his New York City debut in ‘E.T.: The Musical.” – Tim Federle

‘Every station I was at, I never said goodbye – when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don’t know why.’ – Casey Kasem

‘After my parents’ divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day’s activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening.’ – Rob Lowe

‘I’m part of the tribe who have said goodbye to one parent and are feeling a sense of responsibility for the one who remains – in my case, my mother. How do I make her time smoother, happier? How do I try to ease her, a widow, away from the dark well of grief without dishonoring the necessity of that grief?’ – Patti Davis

‘Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.’ – John Grogan

‘A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, ‘Son, you haven’t kissed me since you were a little boy.’ It went straight to my heart, and I kissed him whenever I saw him after that, and my sons and I always kiss whenever we meet.’ – Terry Wogan

‘It was hard saying goodbye to the ‘iCarly’ family just because we have become such a family, but I do get to see them all the time, and I stay in touch with them.’ – Jerry Trainor

‘As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.’ – James Nesbitt

‘Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we’ll see that person again – or perhaps knowing that we won’t.’ – Luanne Rice

‘When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don’t recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.’ – Mary Roach

‘To play a cop’s wife – there’s so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder – it’s not an easy job. It’s not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what’s going to happen throughout the day.’ – Amy Carlson

‘As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.’ – Debbie Ford

‘I went into a church and simply said, ‘Goodbye.’ It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.’ – Ruth Rendell

‘If you don’t make the best-seller list, if you don’t get shortlisted for any prizes, it’s goodbye.’ – Val McDermid

‘The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it’s different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I’ve always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.’ – Damian Woetzel

‘The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That’s part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.’ – Taya Kyle

‘On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.’ – Mary Gaitskill

‘I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren’t coming because of a mixture of things: because I’m not ambitious, and because I’m older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.’ – Jennifer Jason Leigh

‘I’ve become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because… I’ve been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going.’ – Brie Larson

‘Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘When I first started shooting ‘Sharpe,’ back in the early 1990s, I’d kiss my two elder daughters goodbye at the end of August – Evie wasn’t even born then – and I wouldn’t see them again until Christmas. That was tough. They were hard times.’ – Sean Bean

‘Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.’ – Don McLean

‘A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.’ – John Burroughs

‘It’s hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that’s what we’re all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.’ – T. C. Boyle

‘I’ve read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves’s memoir ‘Goodbye to All That,’ and a civilian memoir, ‘Testament of Youth,’ by Vera Brittain.’ – George Packer

‘Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I’d throw you back.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.’ – James Marsden

‘I realised those things my ego needed – fame and success – were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.’ – George Michael

‘I have shot four films for sure. On most days, I wish that there were 48 hours in a day. When a movie is coming to an end and another is going to start, I’ve felt that I don’t want to let go of this one just yet and say goodbye to the character nicely.’ – Shraddha Kapoor

‘I’ve played the drums for so long, I can’t imagine saying goodbye to it.’ – Miguel Ferrer

‘When we were making ‘Toy Story,’ my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I’d never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.’ – Lee Unkrich

‘A couple of my favourite cop movies are ‘I Love a Man in Uniform’ and ‘The Long Goodbye.” – Gregory Smith

‘Carrie Fisher was the most remarkable person I’ve ever known. I made my first three albums in her house. ‘Goodbye My Lover’ was recorded in her bathroom. My life will not be nearly as much fun now she’s gone.’ – James Blunt

‘There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it’s a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.’ – Patrick Lencioni

‘My first albums as a little kid were Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,’ Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Greatest Hits’ – and ‘Workingman’s Dead.’ How many other people still listen to the music they liked at age 12?’ – Ann Coulter

‘When we’re in production, it’s 14 hours a day, and we couldn’t be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can’t see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.’ – Jennifer Konner

‘What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle.’ – David Milch

‘I couldn’t wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for ‘Merrywood.’ I refused to go.’ – John Dickerson

‘Thank you for listening. Thank you for abiding me. And now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I bid you goodbye and take my leave.’ – Frank Deford

‘I’m a big fan of Robert Altman, and one of the things I love in ‘The Long Goodbye’ is the way that he plays with the theme; it’s just used in all these different ways.’ – Keith Maitland

‘I loved ‘Goodbye to Language.” – Richard Linklater

‘I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I’m going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It’s such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see ‘The Long Goodbye,’ which was based on one of Chandler’s books but was contemporary and set in Los Angeles in 1973. I loved the movie, which motivated me to read the book.’ – Michael Connelly

‘It’s never easy for me to say goodbye. I get attached to people very quickly, and with ‘Raw Stars,’ my connection is even more special. I’m in love with their music and perhaps their biggest fan. I think every artiste on the show is mind-blowing.’ – Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ beautifully.’ – Suga

‘I looked her in the eye, and I told her, ‘Ma, I owe everything to you, and I couldn’t be who I am without you. You’re my No. 1 girl, and I’ll always love you.’ And I got to say my piece, I got to say goodbye to her – which was tough.’ – Buddy Valastro

‘Almost 63 years ago, my father, John Johnson, named the publication ‘Jet’ because, as he said in the first issue, ‘In the world today, everything is moving faster. There is more news and far less time to read it.’ He could not have spoken truer words. We are not saying goodbye to ‘Jet’; we are embracing the future as my father did in 1951.’ – Linda Johnson Rice

‘When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn’t go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you’re away, and your loved ones die, and you can’t even see them.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘I don’t believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don’t believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.’ – Anjelica Huston

‘I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive – ‘I don’t think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.” – Ashley Graham

‘Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.’ – Peggy Johnson

‘I have six children, and we neglect our older ones more. Because we were so busy trying to make a living, we just say hello and goodbye… I’m sure those things stick with you.’ – Jason Robards

‘I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down the walls of some enemy 50 miles away and you take some slaves, you take some cattle, probably a bit of cash too, and then you say goodbye and go home and you probably do the same thing next year – or try to, or they do it to you.’ – Mary Beard

‘Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.’ – Frances Hesselbein

‘At different times in life, I’ve felt like it’s time to say goodbye from some form of myself that’s been hanging around for a while – you just feel this urge to move on, like a herd of antelope. They’re just standing there in a field eating grass. You feel like that as a person sometimes. Where’s it’s just time to move on.’ – Kevin Parker

‘I’ve met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!’ – Aretha Franklin

‘Saying goodbye is very emotional.’ – Lukas Podolski

‘I actually wrote the lyrics for ‘Goodbye’ in 10 minutes.’ – CL

”Dog Years’ is sort of my way of saying goodbye and ‘see you soon’ to my friends from college.’ – Maggie Rogers

‘The Japanese people and their country left a huge impression on my wife and I, and we found it difficult to say goodbye before moving back to South America.’ – Diego Forlan

‘When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the right flowers and pictures, and simply trying to find the right way to say goodbye.’ – Natalya Neidhart

‘I have said goodbye to international cricket.’ – Shahid Afridi

‘One of the things I really like about TV is the family, the maintaining of the family camaraderie. Film has it, too, especially when you’re on location. It’s like summer camp. You’ll get really close, really fast. But, then you’ll have to say goodbye.’ – Zoe Bell

‘The enduring image I will keep of Jane Goodall is of her emotional goodbye to a chimp she had rescued and nurtured, on the day of the animal’s release.’ – Susie Dent

‘It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.’ – Saqib Saleem

‘I am a man of Brazil, of F1. My middle name needs to change to Rubens F1 Barrichello. I have no intention of saying goodbye.’ – Rubens Barrichello

‘I’ve had tough times before. Leaving Brazil when I was so young, saying goodbye to my family and friends to go to another culture, that was so difficult.’ – Jorginho

‘The day I stop learning and I don’t try to make myself better on the guitar, that’s the day I hang it up and say, ‘Goodbye.” – Jose Feliciano

‘My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.’ – Katie Melua

‘Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, ‘I found one, I’m sorry. That’s it. Goodbye!” – Leo Sayer

‘Modeling is where my career started, and it’s not something that I think I’m ever going to fully say goodbye to.’ – Lydia Hearst

‘As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that’s tough.’ – Noel Edmonds

‘Saying goodbye to Dortmund was difficult for me of course.’ – Mats Hummels

‘Goodbye not because I’m retiring, but because I’m merely changing jobs. From being your left tackle to being the No. 1 fan of the Cleveland Browns.’ – Joe Thomas

‘I spent a lot of my childhood saying goodbye because I went to boarding school. I didn’t resent my parents for sending me there so young as I understood the limitations of the education system in Africa, where we lived at the time.’ – Chris de Burgh

‘It’s so hard for me to talk about this, because I owe my life to ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ They’ve changed my life completely. They’re my family and it’s always hard to say goodbye.’ – Cheryl Burke

‘Yes, I had bid goodbye to films, but then I am a big fan of Amol Palekar. There was no way I could’ve refused him.’ – Antara Mali

‘With a movie you just film for a few months and when you say goodbye, sometimes you never see the people again.’ – Noah Schnapp

‘I believe God gave me the ability to play hockey, and I was helped by dozens of individuals along the way, so it’s not just up to me on when it’s time to say goodbye.’ – Mike Fisher

‘After the fifth show as Hogan, my radio appearances had shriveled down to two a week Monday and Friday. One afternoon I stood before the camera, and I was so tired I couldn’t remember a line. The next morning I said goodbye to radio or a while.’ – Bob Crane

‘When they were taking Paris to jail for the second time, she went to kiss me goodbye. The guards said ‘No’ and just took her.’ – Kathy Hilton

‘It is a terrible feeling to have to say goodbye to someone who so badly wants to make it work.’ – Nick Viall

‘I tried put everything I had into doing something and proving that MS wasn’t going to hold me back and kissing goodbye to MS.’ – Kadeena Cox

‘I’ll kiss the game goodbye when I no longer have the passion and love for it.’ – Jadakiss

‘They used to call me about coaching, but they pretty much knew what the answer was going to be, so they finally stopped calling. Whenever the Celtics were changing coaches in the 70s and 80s, Red Auerbach would call and say, ‘For the record, do you want to coach?’ I’d say, ‘No,’ and then he’d say, ‘Goodbye.” – John Havlicek

‘I remember Kamini Kaushal had said goodbye to films when I was making ‘Shaheed.’ But I narrated the story to her and convinced her to do my film.’ – Manoj Kumar

‘If you’ve ever spent time staring at those gorgeous first class seats (more like their own rooms!) on Emirates, Etihad, Qantas – or have been lucky enough to fly in one – you might be sad to know that airlines are saying goodbye to these giant planes.’ – Randi Zuckerberg

‘After so many years of playing football, 22 in the professional ranks, I think the time has arrived for me to say goodbye.’ – Luca Toni