Heart Touching Goodbye Quotes & Farewell Quotes

Looking for emotional goodbye quotes to bid someone farewell? We have curated the best handpicked, heartfelt goodbye quotes, sayings, messages, wishes, farewell quotes, and wishes for your loved ones who are bidding a farewell soon either by time or distance.

Life is a string of events of meeting people and bidding them goodbye. People change, relationships end, some switch jobs, and ultimately lives end. It’s no wonder, then, that people have found many ways to say farewell over the years.

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You can read them, and take solace in the fact that there are many others who have been in your shoes.

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List of Goodbye Quotes, Wishes, Messages

“You were my hardest goodbye.”
“The return makes one love the farewell.”
“Every goodbye always makes the next hello closer.”
“The hardest part of loving someone is saying goodbye.”
“I wonder how People say goodbye to someone forever ?”
“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
“It’s not the goodbye that hurts it’s the flashbacks that follow.”
“Don’t cry because you are leaving, smile because you were there.”
“Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?”
“We started with a simple hello but ended with a complicated goodbye.”
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
“I feel very lucky to know someone who is so hard for me to say goodbye.”
“Good friends never say goodbye, they simply say – see you soon Buddy.”
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
“Even if we can’t be together in the end, I’m glad that you were a part of my life.”
“The most painful goodbyes are the ones that are never said and never explained.”
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” – Tryon Edwards
“Man’s feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.”
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
“I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with.”
“There’s a “hell” in hello, “good” in goodbye, “lie” in believe, “over” in lover, “end” in friend, “if” in life.”
“Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean I’ll miss you, Until we meet again!”
“The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.” – Moira Rogers
“It is sad that you are moving, and we’re wishing you much happiness in your new place. Good luck and stay in touch!”
“Thank you for taking care of us and making us feel safe around you! We will miss you so much, please keep in touch!”
“Thank you for being an amazing person! Your direction will be remembered fondly consistently without any doubts. Goodbye!”
“Its not a time to weep. It’s time to fill your heart with new hopes for the new life. We’ll always be in touch no matter where we are!”
“It’s really amazing when two strangers become the best of friends, but it’s really sad when the best of friends become two strangers.”
“The world will come to an end, as I say goodbye to my friend. But I know I’ll pull through this pain, because I know we’ll meet again.”
“May your future be brilliant and prosperous and may you keep on making new companions. Goodbye! Best of luck for the future.”
“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”- Jean Paul Richter
“Thank you for teaching me many things in the long run. I want to keep all these good memories in my heart and look forward! Goodbye.”
“I’m wishing everything best for you because that is exactly what you deserve! Goodbye! We will meet again, soon. Take care of yourself!”
“Success will find you no matter where you go and what you do. As you leave us today just know that my heart will always find you in it!”
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
“You are leaving a ton of memories with us today. You’ll be missed by each and every one of us. Have a great journey to your newest destination!”
“You have always been a great companion for the journey. Saying goodbye to a companion like you is hard for me. Wish you all the best for your new life!”
“Hope you miss me like I will miss you around here. I’m pretty sure most of my mental breakdowns will miss being comforted by you! Take care of yourself.”
“Dear, hope you achieve new heights and good things in the upcoming days. Wishing for a bright future with lots of positivity for you, take care of yourself.”
“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
“May God bless you with fulfilling your dreams and make this world a better place. Hope you will always stay true to yourself and make everyone proud! Adios!”
“I hate goodbyes, so let’s not say it! I hope you always remember that you have a supportive friend here, doesn’t matter wherever you go! See you later, Alligator!”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
“Thank you for all your advice; I will always keep them in my mind! It was a great pleasure to encounter you in this lifetime. Hope we will meet again, someday!”
“I hate saying goodbye to you, my dear. I will always cherish all our good old days and beautiful memories. I hope you know that this isn’t the end, we will stay strong forever.”
“You have been a good companion and a great admirer. Thank you for all your support and encouragement. You are someone I treasure so much so please keep in touch!”
“Saying goodbye is a part of our life and let’s not be sad about this. Rather let’s treasure all the good memories and look forward to the beautiful future. Take care of yourself, Farewell!”
“Thank you for all your help and kindness; I will never forget how you comforted me on my vulnerable days! I hope you know this isn’t actually goodbye, but I will miss you around here.”
“It was a great experience to get associated with you! Good luck for your bright future. May you get blessed with a bright future! Don’t forget me in the long run, I’d love to stay in contact with you!”

Farewell Quotes for Co-workers and Boss

“With a heavy heart, I bid you goodbye, my friend. Farewell.”
“I hope you achieve great things in your new job. Farewell, partner.”
“Happy farewell and goodbye dear. I’m seriously going to miss you here!”
“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” – William Shakespeare
“It’s time to say goodbye, partner. It was a privilege to have worked with you!”
“Thanks for all those help and support in the tasks I wasn’t able to do by mine. Goodbye!”
“It’s difficult to say goodbye to you because I have found my best friend in you. Farewell!”
“I wish you all the best in your new beginning. Workplace won’t be the same without you.”
“You will not be here anymore but your endowment will be here forever. Best wishes to you.”
“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” – Dr. Seuss
“It’s time to move on and scale new heights. But don’t forget the old friends out of sights. See you!”
“Thank You! For all those hectic days you were there by my side. It’s a great pleasure to work with you!”
“Thank you for your help and kindness. You are the best colleague I have ever met. Keep in touch dear.”
“Whenever I was doomed, you were there to uplift me. Thanking you is just not enough! You are my arousal.”
“It is sad to see you leave. The office won’t be the same without you. Take care, and wishing you all the best.”
“You have conferred us with immortal bestowal. Congratulation on your retirement with great dignity!”
“Happy farewell dear colleague! Thank you for the good times and sweet memories that we shared together”
“As you desire to leave for a better land, I hope everything works as your plan. Farewell dear colleague!”
“It has been an absolute pleasure working with someone like you. May you find success in your new enterprise.”
“Saying Goodbye is never easy. Your memories will always have a warm place in my heart. I will really miss you.”
“I really appreciate your support and those path showing favors when I was going wrong. I am going to miss you badly.”
“Working without you is going to be boring, but this is life! Wish you all the best in your tour of endeavors future.”
“We wish you lots of money and a loving boss in the coming future. So go now and never come back! Best of luck!”
“Wherever you go, may you choose the right path and get all the success you deserve. All the best for your next days of life.”
“Farewell and Goodbye Dear! Though your leaving can’t apart us, yet I am feeling pain. I’m going to miss you in the office.”
“I am so lucky that I have a motivating coworker like you. My Dear, these have been wonderful years to work with you.”
“We feel lucky to have worked under your supervision. Your guidance will be missed every day by each one of us. Farewell!”
“Never told you, but I was always learning from you. You were my all-time inspiration and will be in the next. I will miss my Idol.”
“Your supportive and caring nature helped the team come all along this way with no hitches. Farewell and cheers to new life.”
“All I would be missing your towering presence, constant support, inspiring words as a supportive colleague. Farewell, all the best.”
“Goodbye to the best colleague I ever had! What an amazing bonding we shared all these years and I can’t thank you enough for that.”
“Anyone can be a boss. But few know how to become a leader. You were one those few. Today we say goodbye to an amazing leader!”
“Working with you was always learning new things in the office every day. I wonder if I’ll ever have a colleague like you! Goodbye dear!”
“You were not only a boss to us, but you were also a great leader who always knew what motivates his employees best! Farewell to you!”
“Dear Boss, I will be always grateful to you for letting me the opportunity to be a part of this organization. Have a great retired life!”
“As you leave us today, let us tell you that you were the best guardian for us and always will be. Wish you all the best for your new life!”
“You’re the kind of employee any boss would like to have in their office. Its no wonder you’re going to a bigger place. Wish you all the best!”
“Having a senior colleague like you around always felt like a God-send. I’d personally like to thank you for all the mentorship you’ve given me.”
“Your positive spirit is contagious to your people. I enjoyed working with you. I will miss your presence and leadership, boss. Best wishes.”
“When you love the work you do, it can get you to anywhere you want to be. You are a perfect example of this. Best wishes for your new life.”
“In all honesty, all of us at work will tremendously miss you. You were such an excellent mentor to some of us. Good luck with your new endeavor.”
“A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
“You made us believe in ourselves. No one could guide us more successfully than you. It’s hard to bid you farewell for us. But you’ll be missed for sure!”
“You have always been our greatest inspiration and more of a friend, less of a boss. Thank you for being a leader than a boss. Farewell Boss! You’re the best.”
“The way you handled the responsibility on your shoulders was something amazing. You’ve been a real model. I pray that the next phase of your life goes well.”
“Farewell, to the man whose word we trusted more than operating procedures, checklists and manuals. Your knowledge and experience were always beyond par.”
“It has been a wonderful experience working with an inspirational man like you. All of us at work will greatly miss you. We wish you success in your future enterprise.”
“I pray that you achieve monumental successes in your new position. Thank you for all that you have done for us. We’ll miss working under your leadership. Farewell, boss!”
“Your energy and work ethic are some of the many things I love about you. All of us at work will miss you, and more importantly, we’ll always remember you as a great employee.”
“Dear Sir, you were the wisest person in our team. Without you, it will be hard for us to keep the growth increasing. But we hope to do good with your learnings. Farewell and keep in touch.”

Farewell Quotes for Friends and Family

“Thanks for the memories.”
“Goodbyes, they often come in waves.” – Jarod Kintz
“Saying goodbye is the painful way of solving a problem.”
“Goodbye always makes my throat hurt.” – Charlie Brown
“Good friends never say goodbye. They simply say “See you soon.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“It’s not the days in life we remember, rather the moments.” –Walt Disney
“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” – E.B. White
“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” –A.A. Milne
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” –Paulo Coelho
“Goodbyes are not forever, are not the end; it simply means I’ll miss you until we meet again.”
“At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.”
“I hate the feeling when you have to say goodbye to someone you want to spend every minute with.”
“I can’t remember all the times I told myself to hold on to these moments as they pass.” –Counting Crows
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” –J.M. Barrie
“It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye.” –Carrie Underwood
“We laughed until we had to cry, we loved right down to our last goodbye, we were the best.” – St. Elmo’s Fire
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.” –Helen Keller
“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” –Wendy Wunder
“Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles, it’s measured by the heart.”
“Go ahead and find your glory. But never forget the ones you shared the journey with. Wishing you good luck for the new life!”
“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
“Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, though somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.”
“Goodbye is the hardest thing to say to someone who means the world to you, especially when goodbye isn’t what you want.”
“Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” – Richard Bach
“Farewell does not mean the end of our friendship. We have had a great journey together and we’ll surely meet each other at the end!”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” –Henry David Thoreau
“No matter where you go, we will always be connected in our hearts. My heartiest good wishes will be with you always. Farewell dear friend!”
“Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of times.” –Styx
“Having a friend like you in the workplace is a gift. I have always admired you for what you are. Saying goodbye is one difficult part today!”
“Goodbyes make you think. They make you realize what you’ve had, what you’ve lost, and what you’ve taken for granted.” –Ritu Ghatourey
“Saying goodbye is sometimes a part of life. But our memories will always speak for our true friendship wherever we go. Farewell friend!”
“Friends never say goodbye to each other. Because, deep inside the heart, they know that they’ll be in touch forever! Good wishes for your future!”
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
“You are going far away from me. But I know it’s just a matter of time when we’ll meet once again. Our friendship will only become stronger by then!”
“A true friend like you is a precious gift for life. My heart is weeping today knowing that you’ll not be here with me anymore. Have a blessed new life!”
“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” – Robert Southey
“A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” –Flavia Weedn
“We have many good memories with each other. it doesn’t matter where we are, we’ll always feel close to each other thinking about those memories! Goodbye!”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” –Anatole France
“You and I will meet again, When we’re least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won’t say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again.” –Tom Petty
“Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped loving them or we’ve stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.”
“This is not a goodbye, my darling, this is a thank you. Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever.”
“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.” – Irish Blessing

Funny Farewell Quotes

“Bye Felicia!” – Friday
“Goodbye, don’t cry! We won’t!”
“See You Later Alligator.” – Bill Haley and the Comets
“So long, and thanks for all the fish!” – Douglas Adams
“Not all goodbyes are sad, for example “Goodbye Class!”
“We are really going to miss trying to avoid you around here.”
“It will not be the same without you. It will actually be better!”
“I am looking forward to not keeping in touch with you! So long!”
“I’ll see you in another life. When we are both cats.” –Tom Cruise
“It won’t be the same without you here, work may actually get done!”
“We are all going to really miss doing all your work for you everyday!”
“Farewell. Someone is really going to miss you. But, it is not going to be me!”
“See you later, alligator” – “See You Later Alligator,” Bill Haley and the Comets
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” –Oscar Wilde
“Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who’s already left.” – Robert Byrne
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.” –Cecelia Ahern
“Goodbye and Farewell Dear. At last, I have got the chance to entice your chair now!”
“Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” –J.D. Salinger
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world.” –John Green
“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.” – Helen Rowland
“I’ll miss you until you come back but I hope you’ll make up for it by getting me awesome gifts.”- Bon voyage.”
“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”
“We wish you Good Luck getting new colleagues better than us, which is quite hard, right! Best wishes to you.”
“90% of men kiss their wife goodbye when they leave the house. 10% kiss their house goodbye when they leave the wife.”
“Goodbye, Vietnam! That’s right, I’m history, I’m outta here, I got the lucky ticket home, baby.” – Good Morning Vietnam
“Having awesome coworkers is a bad habit, because it’ll be impossible to work with someone else now that you’re leaving.”
“I wish either your resigning got canceled or your dog eats up that! Farewell to the colleague whom we never want to let off.”
“You have always been a great scapegoat for all our crimes in the office. Now we’ll miss you a lot! Just kidding! Farewell dear!”
“I wish my employment contract had a clause which bounded my job with yours so I could follow you wherever you go. Goodbye.”
“It is generally agreed that ‘Hello’ is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said ‘Goodbye,’ it could confuse a lot of people.”
“We all wish your resignation gets rejected and your dog eats up your new appointment letter. Farewell to a boss who we don’t want to let go.”
“You may have a very good job there. You may also enjoy a high salary. But you’ll never find such amazing co-workers like us! Please reconsider!”
“With you leaving us today, this company will have one less lazy employee in the office. But I’ll try my best to take your place there! Farewell dear!”
“I wish you have an arrogant boss there in your new office. I wish your colleagues don’t co-operate with you. I wish you come back here once again!”
“Today our team is going to lose its sense of humor and its heart beat. Farewell to the guy who made every day seem like Sunday with his jokes and enthusiasm.”
“I think you have taken a great decision in switching the job, except for the colleague part. Because you are never getting a colleague more handsome than me!”
“On one hand I feel happy that I no longer have to listen to your angry rants, but on the other the thought of having a new boss makes me wet my pants. Farewell.”
“If I had to play a final prank on you before bidding you farewell, I would tie your legs to your cubicle when you aren’t looking so that you can never leave us. Goodbye.”
“On the outside, know that we may be smiling and wish you farewell. But on the inside, we are desperately praying that you will quit your new job and come back to work with us again.”
“Saying goodbye to you is such a crazy thing! Promise me this is not the end of everything. I know you will always come to see me to get some advice and remember it’s not for free! I will miss you buddy!”