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After a long night of making love, the young guy rolled over, pulled out a cigarette from his jeans and searched for his lighter. Unable to find it, he asked the girl if she had one at hand.

"There might be some matches in the top drawer," she replied.

He opened the drawer of the bedside table and found a box of matches sitting neatly on top of a framed picture of another man. Naturally, the guy began to worry.

"Is this your husband?" he inquired nervously.

"No, silly," she replied, snuggling up to him.

"Your boyfriend then?" he asked.

"No, not at all," she said, nibbling away at his ear.

"Well, who is he then?" demanded the bewildered guy.

Calmly, the girl replied, "That's me before the operation."

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Son: Mummy do you know that our maid is an Angel?

Mummy: Why do you say that?

Son: I saw her naked with her hands up on the wall screaming, ”Oh God I’m coming!”

If it was not for daddy that was holding her tight from behind, She would have gone to heaven!

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Husband n wife agreed dat anytime they want 2 hv sex they'll call it a "phone call". 1 day they had a fight n da wife stopped talking 2 da husband n they were talking 2 each other thru their kids. Da husband 2 his son:Tell mommy daddy wants 2 make a phone call Wife replies:Tell daddy da network is down 2day. Dad replies:Tell ur mom dat if there's no network @ home,I'll go 2 a public phone. Wife 2 her son:Tell ur dad if he dare go 2 a public phone,I'll open a call centre @ home!

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As I was in a taxi, this lady had two large pizza and headed straight to the back seat. When the taxi was full, the driver with angry face fixed his mirror and said '' even though yuu can go at the back seat, yuu so gona pay for those Tiles''

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A conversation between a kid and mother...

Kid: Mom what is it which is in your stomach?
Mom: (Laughing) hahaha son that's your sister.
Kid: Ha! (suprised) did you love her?
Mom: Yeah my love, I love her as much as I
love you...
Kid: Mmmmmmh mom, but why did you eat her?

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A Teacher asked: Which part of body goes to heaven first?.

A student replies: THE LEGS.... because every night I see my mum's legs up high and she's
screaming "OOOOHHHH GOD, I'MMMMM COMINGGGGGG".

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Mr Zulu wanted 2 divorce his wife and were in court.

Judge:Mr Zulu,we understand your complain.
Mr Zulu:Thank you,Your Honour.
Judge:But on what grounds do you want 2 divorce your wife?
Mr Zulu:I don't care about the grounds.It can be Moses Mabhida,Ellis Park or Soccer City!As long as she is out of my life!

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Beer VS. Women

A Beer is always wet, a woman is not….1 point
for beer!

Beer is horrible, when it is hot….1 point for
women!

A cold beer satisfies you….1 point for beer!

For a beer, you pay taxes….1 point for women!
...
If you drink a second beer, the first one doesn’t
get angry….1 point for beer!

You can always be sure that, you are the first
one Opening a beer….1 point for beer!

If you shake a beer, after a while it calms down
by itself….1 point for beer!

You know exactly how much a beer costs….1
point for beer!

A beer does not have a mother….1 point for
beer!

A Beer won’t ask you to hug her for half an hour
after having it….1 point for beer!

So the Score is……Beer beats women 8 to 2

If you’re a guy, enjoy this message..

If you are a
woman reading this and getting angry, know that
a beer would never get angry……1 point for beer

Don't be angry ladies, you're still our 1st priorit

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In a second grade class, a little girl asks, Teacher, can my Mommy get pregnant?

How old is your mother, dear? Asks the teacher. Forty. She replies.
''Yes, dear, your mother could get pregnant''.

The little girl then asks, Can my big sister get pregnant?
Well, dear, how old is your sister?
The little girl answers, Nineteen.

''Oh yes, dear, your sister certainly could get pregnant''.

The little girl then asks, Can I get pregnant?
How old are you, dear?
The little girl answers, I'm seven years old.

''No, dear, you can't get pregnant... ''

Then, the little boy behind the little girl gives her a poke and says, See, I told you we had nothing to worry about!

The teacher fainted

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A woman and her 7 years old son were inside a Taxi. It was raining and all the twilight girls were standing

by the roadside.
The Boy asked; “Mummy, what are all those women doing?.”
His Mother replied; “They are waiting for their husbands to come back from work.”
The Taxi driver turned around and said; “Why don’t you tell him the truth?. Little boy, they are prostitutes,
they sleep with men for money.”
The Boy’s eyes got wide and asked; “Mummy is that true?”
His mother, glaring hard at the driver replied; “Yes.!!”
After a few minutes, the boy asked; “Mummy, what happens to the babies those women have?.”
She replied; “Most of them become Taxi drivers

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Quote about Missing Someone

Quotations about Missing Someone

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XLIII"

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII"

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

Within you I lose myself...
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.
~Author Unknown

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~W.S. Merwin, "Separation"

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
~George Linley

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

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

When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum....
~Amy Lowell, "The Taxi"

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
~Henry Alford, "You and I" (Thanks, Jenn)

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
When stars illume the sky,
I gaze upon each orb of light,
And wish that thou wert by.
~George Linley

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~Frances Anne Kemble

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ~Adrienne Rich

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne

Another day, another pang that you are afar. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose-leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

Missing someone gets easier every day 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. ~Author Unknown

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson

When you are not at hand to kiss away my fears I cannot choose but be wretched. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear, and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.
~Robert Dodsley

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?
~Alexander Pope

A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
~Francis Kazinczy

Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. ~Eric Hoffer

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Quote about Faith

Quotations about Faith

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. ~Author Unknown

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth

To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault,

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~Madeleine L'Engle

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes

A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982

Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. ~Robert Brault,

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. ~Robert Brault,

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward

There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. ~Lois Chartrand

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. ~Margot Asquith

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith

Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
~Terri Guillemets

Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. ~Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. ~Judith Hanson Lasater

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ~Mahalia Jackson

Faith is not about everything turning out okay, faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out. ~Author Unknown

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. ~Michael Eric Dyson

Your heart is a sun —
Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness....
~Terri Guillemets

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. ~C.H. Spurgeon

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~Colette Baron-Reid

Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. ~Robert Brault,

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding

Quotations about Heartache

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

[A] final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown

God is closest to those with broken hearts. ~Jewish Saying

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go. ~Author Unknown

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine

I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks

I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
~Rupert Brooke

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Author Unknown

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
~Edmund Spenser

With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
~Thomas Moore

Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown

If we must part forever,
Give me but one kind word to think upon,
And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.
~Thomas Otway

Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free;
Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
~Algernon Charles Swinburne

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958

My love-lies-bleeding. ~Thomas Campbell

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. ~Samuel Johnson

Walking, working, barely breathing
My thoughts, far away
Heart aching, mind racing
Sleep does not come easily, nor last long....
~Peter Winstanley

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you. ~Author Unknown

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

It's not love's going hurts my days
But that it went in little ways.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love. ~Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

...Lost in your heart, lost in your eyes
Lost every day, no map to follow
Entire days, weeks, a blur
Flickers of light, in the darkness,
Only to be enveloped in shadows once more...
~Peter Winstanley

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness. ~Terri Guillemets

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

To all the people in the world who feel empty
Grab onto a piece of my heart
For I feel empty too
And together we can make a chain of love.
~Astrid Alauda

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~Charlie Brown

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea. ~Alexander Smith

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling

I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine;
For if from yours you will not part,
Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?
~John Suckling

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh give me back my heart!
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Maid of Athens"

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow. ~James Matthew Barrie

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto

Quotes about Missing Someone

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XLIII"

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII"

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi

Within you I lose myself...
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again.
~Author Unknown

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
~W.S. Merwin, "Separation"

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
~George Linley

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

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

When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum....
~Amy Lowell, "The Taxi"

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
~Henry Alford, "You and I" (Thanks, Jenn)

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

Oft in the tranquil hour of night,
When stars illume the sky,
I gaze upon each orb of light,
And wish that thou wert by.
~George Linley

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations for Goodbyes : Quote fore goodbyes

Quotations for Goodbyes

Painful though parting be, I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds. ~Emperor Saga

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach

We only part to meet again. ~John Gay

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

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"

Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye? ~Author Unknown

Gone - flitted away,
Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a cloud in my heart.
~Alfred Tennyson

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie

Goodbyes are not forever.
Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I'll miss you
Until we meet again!
~Author Unknown

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper

Excuse me, then! you know my heart;
But dearest friends, alas! must part.
~John Gay

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand. ~Irish Blessing

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.
~Dale Evans

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey

Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. ~Garrison Keillor

What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
~Frances Anne Kemble

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. ~William Cowper

She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.
~Francis Thompson

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

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won't say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again
~Tom Petty

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare

In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
~Ben Jonson

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn,Forever, © Flavia.com

So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
~William Shenstone

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part. ~Edward Young

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

Where is the good in goodbye? ~Meredith Willson, The Music Man (Thanks, Thomas)

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. ~Henry Fielding

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. ~A.A. Milne

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~Irish Blessing

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. ~Elizabeth Bowen

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~Irish Blessing

May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
~Irish Blessing

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French

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

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ~Kahlil Gibran

Farewell, my sister, fare thee well.
The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
~William Shakespeare

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. ~Helen Rowland

The return makes one love the farewell. ~Alfred De Musset

You're searching...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.
~Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, "In the Home Stretch"

Fare thee well! and if for ever,
Still for ever, fare thee well.
~Lord Byron

May you have warm words on a cool evening, a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way to your door. ~Irish Toast

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
Say, is not absence death to those who love?
~Alexander Pope

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. ~Alan Alda

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~Irish Blessing

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! ~Robert Pollok

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear, and bid adieu;
Though we sever, my fond heart
Till we meet shall pant for you.
~Robert Dodsley

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave. ~William Shakespeare

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~Irish Blessing

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me? ~Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant, "Free Bird," One More From the Road, 1973, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. ~Lazurus Long

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~Irish Blessing

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. ~Gilda Radner

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. ~Washington Irving

Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been -
A sound which makes us linger; - yet - farewell!
~Lord Byron

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. ~R.M. Grenon

Missing someone gets easier every day 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. ~Author Unknown

Farewell!
For in that word - that fatal word - howe'er
We promise - hope - believe - there breathes despair.
~Lord Byron

Let's not unman each other - part at once;
All farewells should be sudden, when forever,
Else they make an eternity of moments,
And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.
~Lord Byron

A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown

A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! ~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. ~Jean Paul Richter

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel, attributed

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