#farewell

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#been #bid #birth #country #death

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. ↗

— Robert Reed

#arms #before #book #came #deal

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#change #denmark #farewell #now #opportunity

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#darkens #faithless #farewell #road #says

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#ernest-hemingway #love #love

I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense. ↗

— Laura Wiess

#goodbyes #parting #love

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#good-bye #french

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#atlanta #boyhood #capital #decided #farewell