Quotes and Sayings

Some Goodbye Quotes that will come in handy when you see off someone.

“May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door.” ~Irish Toast

“The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?”
~Nicholas Rowe

“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.”
~Unknown

“A good-bye is never painful unless you’re never going to say hello again.”
Anonymous

“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.”
~Emily Dickinson

“Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ”
~Author

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

“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.”
~William Shakespeare

“If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?”
~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant

” Saying good-bye to the times we’ve had is the same as saying hello to the times to come.”
Unknown

“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.’
~John Dryden

This is very nice goodbye quote for a friend.

“Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.”
~John Gay

“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would I’d never leave. ”
~A.A. Milne

“Farewell!
For in that word - that fatal word - howe’er
We promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.”
~Lord Byron

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
~Lazurus Long

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
~George Eliot

Some collection of sympathy quotes and sayings.

“Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.”
~ Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst

“Pain has an Element of Blank
It cannot recollect
When it began or if there were
A time when it was not”
~ Emily Dickinson

“Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart”
~Edmund Burke

“And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.”
~John Henry Newman

“Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.”
~ Ernest Wilfrid LeGouve

“We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility.”
~William Hazlitt

“The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
~ Kahlil Gibran

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
~ William Wordsworth

“To be in one’s own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness”
~ Confucius

“The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.”
~ Parke Godwin

“A sympathy in choice.”
~ William Shakespeare

“The man who melts with social sympathy, though not allied,Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”
~ Euripides

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
~Thomas Campbell

“To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
~ Tryon Edwards

To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
~Tryon Edwards

And a sweet sympathy Poem.

“He kept at true good humour’s mark
The social flow of pleasure’s tide:
He never made a brow look dark,
Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”
~Thomas Love Peacock

Here are some of I am sorry quotes and sayings and apology quotes. Being human, we often do err, and often have to seek apology from friends and loved ones. You can sweeten the apology by quoting a nice saying, just don’t make it too dramatic!!!

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ~Kimberly Johnson

“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” ~Paul Boese

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” ~Erich Segal

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ~William Blake

“If I’ve done anything I’m sorry for, I’m willing to be forgiven.” ~Edward N. Westcott

“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” ~Isaac Friedmann

“A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.” ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

“An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.”~Robin Quivers

Friends are God’s apology for relations.” ~Hugh Kingsmill

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”~ Lois Wyse

Here are some more “I am Sorry Quotes“

Our family choses us but we chose our friends.
From amongst billions of humans we chose our own set of friends.

Celebrities have friends too, even Paris Hilton does.

We all have our own set of friends, and best friends amongst them, and more often than not we fight, argue, then make up. And on each occasion, be it making up, his/her birthday or be it any special occasion, it is always nice to send a small message, on an SMS or eCard or a greeting cards.

And it is always good that we hand write such lovely words.
I have compiled a list of friendship quotes that we can send our friends, all those who had stood by in thick and thin, all those special persons that we chose ourselves.

lemme start with this famous Czech proverb, ”
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” Friend can indeed be the best fence.

“When it hurts to look back, and you’re scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there” How so true?

I find this one really cute, ” A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” And we all have had one such friends in our lifetime. Have you forgotten him? These cute love quotes might remind you.

“No road is long with good company. ” If you have a good friend, no road will be long. This is one good friendship quote. I will remember those late night long drives with my friends in college.

“Hold a true friend with both your hands. ” and Never let go I would add. A true friend is hard to come by so don’t be loose in holding it.

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.” And yes, I have also often wondered at this invention called friendship. It was a masterstroke of god indeed.

“A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.” If you are in doubt in yourself, always seek out your friends. He or she is often the one will be tell you the truth, even if they are unpleasant.

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow ~ Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead ~ Just walk beside me and be my friend.” I found this saying on a greeting card long time back, and keep getting the same in ecards and signatures and scrapbooks. And I never stop feeling good each time I read this.

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” Do you remember that part from Erich Segal’s doctors when the two doctors met at a restaurant. The guy had come to pick the girl up from the airport and went straight to some fancy restaurant, all washed out and confided to each other about their love. It was so lovely!!

“A true friend is someone who knows there’s something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face.” Never try to hide your sorrows from your friends, they will find out anyway even if you tried hard.

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ” and Lucky is the person who finds a friend who is really a friend.

Friend usually share many good things, and as the saying goes ” Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”"

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Who was your best friend in school? Do you still remember him/her? This post on best friend quotes is dedicated to mine and all of your best friends.

“Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.”

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
~ Henry Ford

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

“You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.”

“A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.”
~Grace Pulpit

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
~Plautus

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
~Helen Keller

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.”

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

“I like her because she smiles at me and means it.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
~Marlene Dietrich

“If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.”

“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it is a comfort to go hand in hand.”
~Emily Kimbrough

“Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.”

“A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself.”
~Frances Ward Weller

“I think about you all the time, but I don’t need the same.”

We have some more Friendship Quotes.