Top 182 Parting Quotes & Sayings

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

In every parting there is an image of death.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

You should always be careful of what you say in parting.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

There's nothing in the street Looks any different to me And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye And the parting on the left Is now the parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight.

...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

Miracles aren't necessarily good for everyone. The parting of the Red Sea, great for the Jews, not so hot for the Egyptian soldiers.

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

If Dracula can’t see his reflection, how come his parting’s always neat?

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.

Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.