Graduation/ Good-bye Quotes
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"You should have known what you had when you had me. You should never have let me go." ~Melissa Rokyta "You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory." ~Unknown "Maybe nothing lasts forever not the mountains or the sea, but the times we've had together, they will always be with me." ~The Samples "How lucky am I to have something that makes saying good-bye so hard?" ~Unknown "Some say holding onto someone is what makes you strong, but sometimes it's letting go." ~Unknown "I want to remember how you've made me laugh, and sometimes cry, and I never want to forget how special and different you are. And how you touch my heart in a way that no one else ever could." ~Unknown "If this is for the best, why are you still in my heart, you're still in my soul...let me let go." ~Faith Hill "Don't you ever think that I don't love you, or for one minute that I forgot you. Sometimes things don't work out, and you just have to say good-bye." ~Unknown "The last good-bye is the hardest one to say." ~George Straight "Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star. And when the night winds start to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we are sleeping underneath the same big sky. Somewhere out there if love can see us through, then we'll be together. Somewhere out there, out where dreams come true." ~Somewhere Out There "I know that we don't have that long to be together, but remember, when you're lonely at night, I am gazing at the same stars as you." ~Unknown "I've learned that just because you've moved on it doesn't mean you gave up." ~Unknown "Miss me a little but not too long. And not with your head bowed low. Remember the love that we once shared. Miss me but let me go." ~Unknown "The only way I can show the one I love how much he means to me is to let him go." ~Unknown "It's just that it's hard to lose something no matter how much or little it meant at the time." ~Cristin McGrail "Just because something ends doesn't mean it never should have been." ~Unknown "Letting go isn't about giving up, it's about accepting that some things just cannot be." ~Unknown "Sometimes you have to let go of the better to get the best." ~Unknown "Don't cry for what might have been, don't live in the past. It was supposed to be forever, well forever never lasts. Lift your head and dry your tears, forget yesterday. We had the time of our lives, but we must move on. Let it fade away." ~Unknown "We'll do what we gotta do and we'll see what we gotta see, and if in the end we wind up together, then that's what's meant to be." ~Unknown "If a relationship is going to evolve, it must go through a series of endings." ~Lisa Moriyama "No one wants to leave, but it has to be this way. Support is what we'll need, good-bye is what we'll say." ~Unknown "Never stop saying hello's in fear of saying good-bye." ~Unknown "Don't you understand that we're only holding onto each other because we're too scared to let go?" ~Beverly Hills 90210 "For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on." ~Judith Viorst "Missing someone gets easier everyday, because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will." ~Unknown "God saw you were getting tired, and a care was not to be, so He put His arms around you, and whispered"come to me." With tearful eyes we watched you, and saw you pass away. Although we loved you dearly, we could not make you stay. A golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands at rest. God broke our heart to prove to us, He only takes the best." ~Unknown "It's time to let you go. It's time to say good-bye. No more excuses, no more tears to cry. There's been so many changes, I've been so confused. All along you were the one. All the time I never knew. I want you to be happy. You're my best friend. But it's so hard to let you go now with all that could have been. I'll always have the memories. She'll always have you. Fate has a way of changing just when you don't want it to. Throw away the chains. Let love fly away. 'Til love comes again, I'll be okay." ~Amanda Marshall "How do you prepare a heart to be broken, or dreams to fall through? How do you let go of a miracle who means everything to you? How do you walk away, the tears in your eyes...letting go isn't easy, you can just pray you'll survive." ~Unknown "If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and a kiss and call you back for one more." ~Unknown "Holding on, we've gotta try. Holding on to never say good-bye." ~Unknown "What makes you stay when your world falls apart? What makes you try one more time when it's not in your heart? At the end of your rope, when you can't find any hope, you still look at him and say 'I just can't walk away.' Tell me, what makes you stay?" ~Unknown "I can let go, I can forgive, I can even move on, but I will never stop loving you." ~Unknown "I cry not because I love you, but because I have lost you." ~Unknown "Life wouldn't be the same without you and all the memories you've given me." ~Unknown "I have nothing to look forward to, so I will stay in the memories because they will never change and that's where I'll always be happy." ~Monica Berry "When you apologized it was like God told me it was okay to hold on." ~Monica Berry "We attach ourselves so strongly to people that when they're gone, a part of us is gone too." ~Unknown "Many say you can die only once in your life, but many of the people who say that have never lost someone that they have loved." ~Unknown "Missing you isn't the hardest part, knowing I once had you is what breaks my heart." ~Unknown "I used to smile when I told people you were mine, but now I can't even smile and say your name at the same time." ~Unknown "This is our last good-bye...it's over, just hear this and then I'll go; you gave me more to live for then you'll ever know." ~Unknown "A million words would not bring you back - I know because I've tried. Neither would a million tears - I know because I've cried." ~Unknown "Never say good-bye when you still want to try, never give up when you still feel you can take it, never say you don't love that person anymore when you can't let go." ~Unknown "So kiss me good-bye for I'm leaving. Will it honestly affect your life in any way at all? I didn't think so. So why won't you just let me go peacefully?" ~Michelle Burns "I took for granted, all the times that I thought would last somehow. I hear the laughter, I taste the tears, but I can't get near you now." ~Richard Marx "You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you." ~Garth Brooks "If you see her, tell her the light's still on for her. Nothing's changed, deep down the fire still burns for him. And even if it takes forever, say I'll still be here - if you see him - if you see her." ~Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire "I miss you, but it's starting to hurt less, cause I know you weren't the one. If you were, you'd still be here." ~Unknown "I thank God every time I remember you." ~Unknown "There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real." ~Unknown "Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?" ~Unknown "You can't hold onto something that doesn't want to be held on to." ~Unknown "I never wanted to hold you back; I just wanted to hold on." ~Blink 182 "As you left and said your good-byes, you forgot how to tell my heart how to live without you." ~Unknown "And it's so hard to do and so easy to say, but sometimes you just have to walk away." ~Unknown "You had me at hello, but now we say good-bye. Everything I thought was true, I now realize was a lie." ~Unknown "For what it's worth, I'm not over the pain of this yet. Letting go isn't a one time thing, it's something you have to do over and over again every day." ~Unknown "If you love something set it free...if it comes back, it was meant to be. If it continues to fly, let it soar, have faith that God has something better in store." ~Unknown "There are no good-byes where you'll be- you'll be in my heart." ~Unknown "Sometimes the memories are worth the pain." ~Unknown "Change is never easy - you fight to hold on, you fight to let go." ~The Wonder Years "Sometimes you wish it just hadn't gone on this long, because it's just a deeper hole to dig yourself out of. You're in relationships a lot deeper that you thought and you gotta say good-bye to people and you didn't realize the space that someone occupied in your life until you really stop and realize-ok, they're not gonna be there tomorrow- they're not gonna be there next week. I mean, once you can really start to get your mind around that, it's pretty sad." ~Beverly Hills 90210 "Sometimes, no matter how much faith we have, we lose people. But we never forget them. And sometimes, it's those memories that give us the faith to go on." ~Unknown "Remember everything when only memory remains." ~Unknown "There are so many things I'm not sure of in life, but with all certainty at this very minute, all I know is that I miss him." ~Unknown "To lose a friend has to be the greatest pain you will ever feel. Every time I look at you, I remember that pain." ~Unknown "Forget just so you may remember again." ~Unknown "Did you ever wish you could pick up everything and say good-bye, and never feel pain, hurt, or even a reason to cry?" ~Unknown "Whenever I feel like I'm ok with letting go, there's always something there to remind my of why I shouldn't." ~Unknown "I try to forget about you, but I just open my eyes and everything around me reminds me of you." ~Unknown "Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, I get hit with the memory of how much you meant to me just when I thought I was alright with forgetting." ~Unknown "Time may take away a moment, but a memory will always bring it back." ~Unknown "You may have walked out of my life, but I was forever changed by your presence." ~Unknown "The only true painful good-byes are the ones that are never said and never explained." ~Unknown "I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass." ~Counting Crows "Some things are over, some things go on. Part of me you carry, and part of me is gone." ~Unknown "There are no good-byes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart." ~Mahatma Gandhi "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." ~T.S. Eliot "There is an end to all things, no matter how much we want to hold on to them." ~Unknown "Your life is made up of years that mean nothing, and moments that mean it all." ~Unknown "The hardest thing about moving forward is not looking back." ~Felicity "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." ~Calvin and Hobbes "We laughed as they said we wouldn't want to leave. We cried as they said we had to go." ~Unknown "Letting go is the hardest thing to do, especially if the person is your world, your life and the one you entrusted to hold your heart forever." ~Unknown "So many people have come into my life, and I know they'll all be going, but I'm going to be losing some of the best friends I could ever have. I don't know how I'll get through that." ~Unknown "It's so hard to forget someone you'll always remember." ~Unknown "Sometimes, the memories are worth the pain." ~Unknown "Memories are treasures worth far more than gold." ~Unknown "Times were tough but the memories remain, situations rough but we overcame; side by side, one for all, together we grew...cause when it's said and done I'll look back on friends like you." ~Unknown "Good-bye means wanting to say so much but being able to say so little." ~Unknown "Let's just let good-bye hurt like it should." ~Unknown "You can fall in love in an instant. It's letting go that takes time." ~Unknown "How can I forget the past, when it keeps finding a way back into my heart?" ~Unknown "I have the sense to recognize that I don't know how to let you go." ~Sarah McLachlan "She's had eighteen years to get ready for this day. She should be past the tears, she cried some anyway.. oh, letting go, there's nothing in her way now, there's room enough to fly.. and even though, she's spent her whole life waiting, its never easy: Letting Go." ~Unknown "Why is it no matter how much pain it causes to hold on, my heart refuses to let go?" ~Unknown "Sometimes, you have to stand alone to see if you still can." ~Unknown "The moments may have ended, but the memories last forever." ~Unknown "I'm holding onto something that used to be there, hoping it will come back...knowing it won't." ~Unknown "I knew that this moment would come in time, that I'd have to let go and watch you fly." ~Unknown "How could you just walk a way from me and not look back. Please, won't you tell me so I can do it too." ~Leticia Escandon "Not a day will go by when I won't miss you and wish you were with me." ~Unknown "Sometimes the memories flood my mind and I stop everything and just smile." ~Unknown "I guess that now it's time, for me to give up...I think it's time." ~Unknown "No more crying. I can't cry anymore. Don't take my hand this time. Just go please and don't look back, because I know if you did I would come running back to you." ~Unknown "Before you leave, promise me one thing: that you won't forget what we had, because it was special. I know it was. And if I could go back in time, you know I would go back to you." ~Unknown "There are some people that make getting over them so hard." ~Unknown "People enter my life then leave without even saying good-bye, but some people stay for awhile and the memory of them lasts forever." ~Leticia Escandon "I had to let him go, not because I didn't care, but because I care too much." ~Leticia Escandon "There would come a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person started hating us, but because we found out that they'd be happier if we let them go." ~Unknown "It's really painful to say good-bye to someone that you don't want to let go; but it's even more painful to ask someone to stay if you can never make the relationship work out the way it should be." ~Unknown "If you love somebody, let them go. For, if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't they never were." ~Kahlil Gibran "You may be able to erase a memory from the mind, but you will never be able to erase a memory from the heart." ~Leticia Escandon "When you love someone you have to let them go." ~Leticia Escandon "I'll move on but that doesn't mean I won't be here if you change your mind." ~Leticia Escandon "It hurts to see you walk away. For, admit it or not, you were an important part of my life and the time we shared will forever be a part of me. So, even though I realize that it was never meant to be, still, it hurts." ~Unknown "Someday you'll look and we'll be gone...but tomorrow may bring rain, so I'll follow the sun." ~U2 "I'm not gonna cry. I'm waving good-bye and I know this time you got nothing on me." ~Unknown "Down a dark and twisted path I lay waiting to be free from the memories that haunt me, and the voices that won't let me go, and the face that cant escape my mind. Never again will I be the same. Why does everything have to change?" ~Unknown "Sometimes we just need to blink away the tears and say good-bye!" ~Unknown "I lied my face off when I said I'd be okay. It's never fine when you go away." ~Alkaline Trio "Don't let yesterdays take up too much of today." ~Unknown "Liking is easy, loving is difficult and letting go is both." ~Unknown "My heart is fighting so hard to hang on when I know I should be fighting hard to let go." ~Unknown "I never wanted to hold you back, I just wanted to hold on." ~Blink 182 "Letting go of you hurts way too much. I used to feel that by letting go, I was just giving up on all those wasted years. But now I realize how much I'll lose if I just keep holding on to something that never was and may never be mine." ~Unknown "Sometimes, you have to hold your head up high, blink the tears away, and just say good-bye." ~Unknown "Yeah, I remember our first kiss. And I also remember your promise not to ever hurt me. Well, look at us now, that promise has been broken one too many times, so I'm leaving and I won't ever come back." ~Unknown "Certain things, they should just stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway." ~Catcher in the Rye "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." ~Willa Cather, My Antonia "When you have moments like that one... you can't even imagine it won't stay that way." ~Down To You "Something tells me that whatever happens to us, whether we stay together or go our separate ways no, matter what neither one of us will ever forget the time we spent together." ~Allison Mosher "All good things must come to an end, but I wouldn't have wanted it to end any other way or with any other people." ~Unknown "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." ~Unknown "Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life." ~Unknown "What good will writing do? I want to put my hand out and touch him. I want to do for him and care for him. I want to be there when he's sick...and when he's lonely, but I can't." ~Unknown "Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead." ~Unknown "Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, and the things you never want to lose." ~Unknown "A good-bye is only painful if you know you will never say hello again." ~Unknown "We will never forget the good times and even the bad, but now we must go on with our lives and see the future ahead of us." ~Unknown "Though the miles between us are many, the heart is a bridge that can span the largest oceans. Thus, we shall always be close, as long as we are in each other's hearts." ~Unknown "We are forced to separate for some time, but don't be sad, for it's just a test of true love." ~Unknown "We may be further apart then we'd hoped, but distance will never stop my feelings for you." ~Unknown "If you love someone more than anything, then distance only matters to the mind, not to the heart." ~Unknown "I never knew that missing someone can be so hard. Even though we're so far apart, my love for you is just a heartbeat away." ~Unknown "I'm going to turn and walk away. You wait until I am far along, then run and come and catch my arm and say you'd die if I were gone. Yes, I'm going to turn and walk away, you can watch me go, or you can make me stay." ~Unknown "The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever." ~Unknown "It's just that its hard to lose someone no matter how much or how little they meant to you at the time." ~Cristin McGrail "It was a time of innocence, a time of confidence. Long ago it must be; I have a photograph. Preserve your memories, they're all that's left of you." ~Simon & Garfunkel "Every year's a souvenir that slowly fades away." ~Billy Joel "Never say good-bye because saying good-bye means going away, and going away means forgetting." ~Peter Pan "We don't talk much anymore, we keep running from the pain. But what I wouldn't give to see your face again, cause I don't know you anymore." ~Savage Garden "You've got a way of confusing a heart that nobody else could do. Why should I try, I don't want to get over you." ~Unknown "I'd be lying if I said I didn't love him or he never crossed my mind. But that was yesterday, and though the memories may find me, they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday anyway." ~Unknown "So now I say the things I want to say; Sometimes it's better letting go this way. I'll always know, down in my soul, we really had so far to go. I've given all I had to give and now it's time for me to live. And I won't look back and I won't regret. Though it hurts like hell, someday I will forget." ~Sozzi "How do you expect me to move on, to let you go, when I see you everyday and talk to you constantly? We can't be together I know that, so I want you out of my life completely. I can't be friends with you because seeing your face and hearing your voice just makes me think about how much I love you, and then about how I can't be with you. This is the easiest way for me to let go of something. I have to let go of it completely, even if that means we can't be friends." ~Unknown "Faith brought us together, destiny took us apart, we will always be together if we only follow our hearts." ~Unknown "The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one, and in each of them we've found each other." ~Unknown "People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes. Pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything is so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have any guilt if new people mean more to you now." ~Helen Gurley Brown "So if I have to leave you, I want you to know that in the end it wasn't because I stopped caring, it was because you stopped being a friend." ~Unknown "Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is necessary before meeting again and meeting again after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends." ~Richard Bach "Friendship is love, love is courage and courage is having the guts to say 'good-bye' when you'd rather stay." ~Unknown "I'll never remember you, because you must forget in order to remember and I'll never forget you!" ~Unknown "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." ~Tim McGraw "I can tell by your tears you will remember it all." ~Unknown "I'll remember our laughter as we go our separate ways, but there's so much we're learning and we cannot be afraid. There's a world outside our door and nothing's in our way. But if it's not what we're looking for, we'll meet again some day." ~Unknown "All the good times that we've been through, all those things we did that were new...There were moments we laughed and cried, but we always stood by each other's side. Those many days we spent together will stay in my heart always and forever." ~Unknown "What can I say? You're going away. I can't say I'll see you tomorrow, for there will be many days to follow of loneliness and pain, but today I'll leave you with I love you, and I will miss you." ~Unknown "The pages may crumble the pictures may fade, but we'll never forget the friends we've made." ~Unknown "You spend 12 years of your life trying to learn how to live, but every time you try to live you are told that you're wrong. Then everyone you've grown to love is taken away and scattered...That's what they should teach us in school. How to say good-bye and let go." ~Unknown "Saying good-bye isn't the hard part, it's what we have to leave behind that's tough." ~Unknown "In your life you will meet people, some you never think about again, some you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you, and then there are some you wish you never had to think about again ... but you do." ~The Wonder Years "The friendships we have today will not be forgotten tomorrow because time never erases love." ~Unknown "Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends." ~Unknown "I'll remember the things I did for awhile, but I'll remember the people I did them with forever!" ~Unknown "Nothing stays the same, nothing good remains, no one ever stays, feelings always fade away, people change, lives are destroyed, I will never walk with you again, never again will we share the days my friend." ~Unknown "Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We'll take the best and forget the rest and someday we'll find that these are the best times." ~Unknown "Remember me with smiles and laughter for that is how I will remember you." ~Unknown "Promise you won't forget me cause if I thought you would I'd never leave." ~Winnie the Pooh "Somehow I know we'll meet again. Not quite sure where and I don't know just when. You're in my heart so until then, it's time for saying good-bye." ~The Muppets Take Manhatten "Today is the day we leave our past behind, today we say our last good byes, memories in the back of my mind, held close until the day I die." ~Unknown "We laughed until we had to cry and loved right down to our last good-bye; and through the tears, a smile when we recall, we had it all- for just a moment." ~Theme to St. Elmo's Fire "So many faces in this life, some will last, some will be now and then. Life is a series of hellos and good-byes...it's time for the good-byes again." ~Billy Joel "Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. they stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same." ~Unknown "And so it comes just as it is, a day no longer here. And through my trembling fingertips, the memories of the year...I try not to wave farewell to all our dreams, I will forget you never, I wonder if the crazy times will stay with you forever...But as I cry in pain of losing you, my dear and such good friend, I will not close the book and say ' farewell, this is the end'...For good-byes create swift hellos, and days from now you'll see, that though it hurts to say good-bye, your friend I'll always be." ~Unknown "I learned that things change, people change, and it doesn't mean you forget the past or try to cover it up. It simply means that you move on, and treasure the memories." ~Alicia Boxer "You never lose anything. Not really. Things, people- they go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them anymore than you can hold the moonlight. But if they've touched you, if they're inside of you, then they're still yours." ~Unknown "We met as total strangers and end as lifetime friend. We shared a season of our lives but every season has to end." ~UTM "The best thing about a picture is it never changes...even when the people in it do." ~Unknown "As I look back on all that's happened...growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me - there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I'll truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever...and what the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you'll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for what the future may hold." ~Unknown "As I stared into your eyes, you asked me why I was about to cry. It's because I knew you were going to say good-bye." ~Unknown "I miss you when something really good happens, because you're the only one I want to share it with. I miss you when something is troubling me, because you're the only one who understands me so well. I miss you when I laugh and cry, because I know that you are the one that makes my laughter grow and my tears disappear. I miss you all the time, but I miss you most when I lay awake at night and think of all the wonderful times that we spent with each other for those were some of the best and most memorable times of my life." ~Unknown "Sweet memories are woven from good times." ~Unknown "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." ~Dr. Seuss "You never know when you're making a memory." ~Rickie Lee Jones "Every exit is an entry somewhere else." ~Tom Stoppard "I always knew that we would look back on our crying and laugh, but I never knew we would look back on our laughter and cry." ~J. F. K. "Things do not change-we change." ~Henry David Thoreau
