Partings Quotes

A little while with grief and laughter And then the day will close The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival the departure.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Departure should be sudden.

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

We only part to meet again.