Good-by Quotes

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. (Ernest Hemingway)
Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, It turns and turns to say "Good-by! Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!" Then lightly travels on its way. View quote
Mary Mapes Dodge
Well, good-by, Uncle Tom; keep a stiff upper lip. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
... most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by. View quote
Jack Kerouac
But he sent her Good-by, And said to be good, And wear her red hood, And look for skunk tracks In the snow with an ax - And do everything! View quote
Robert Frost
I dreamed once that I was going to be hanged; but I was not at all surprised about it. Nobody was. My relations came to see me off, I thought, and to wish me "Good-by!" They all came, and were all very pleasant; but they were not in the least astonished-not one of them. Everybody appeared to regard the coming tragedy as one of the most-naturally-to-be-expected things in the world. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one's neighbor fall off his roof. View quote
Lin Yutang
And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep- And good-by to the bar and its moaning. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future. View quote
John Steinbeck
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status. View quote
Maria Montessori
One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist. (Maria Montessori)
When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle I think of a little sister, a French-Canadian sister, whose life was changed by the missionaries as her spirit was touched. As she said good-by to me and my wife in Quebec, she said, 'President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet.' View quote
Thomas S. Monson
It beckons, I follow. Good-by to the light, I am going, O whither? Out into the night. View quote
Richard Henry Stoddard