Farewell speech is often given by someone who is leaving a particular place, the position, or a person. A farewell speech is delivered with an aim to address the people with whom the person worked or spent most of their time at a particular place. Goodbye, are really emotional and even difficult times. However, it is very important to tell each and everyone, who either worked with you or shared the same platform, about their importance in their lives and how they brought out the best of their abilities.
The happy time shared and the difficult situations handled, everything can be lived once again by your mesmerising farewell speech.
Giving a farewell speech in front of all those people you’ve spent most of your time with, is not just a bunch of words but is a stream of emotions and memories. A well-delivered speech assists a person in leaving an impact on the audience such that they can know that you’re a bit sad about leaving all of them. It also gives you the ultimate opportunity to say some kind words of thanks to all your friends or colleagues who’ve made each day spent there in that particular place worth cherishing forever. It’s also your last chance to even apologize to all the people that really cared for you and were standing by your side in the most difficult hours of your life. Therefore, it’s very vital to keep some catchy and relevant quotes in your speech in order to make it even more powerful and memorable. Jotted down below are the top 30 farewell quotes of all time to make your final words more upbeat.
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
- “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
- “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation.”
Rumi
- “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”
Dr. Seuss
- “Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “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
- “We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day.”
Vera Lynn (We’ll Meet Again)
- “To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word – Farewell.”
R.M. Ballantyne
- “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
Confucius
- “True friends don’t say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.”
-Unknown
- “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
- “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
George Eliot
- “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
-E.B. White
- “Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
-Richard Bach
- “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
-J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
- “So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
-Helen Keller
- “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
- “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”
-Garrison Keillor
- “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
-Semisonic
- “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest thing in the world.”
-John Green (Paper Towns)
- “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
-Oscar Wilde (The Duchess of Padua)
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
-Paulo Coelho
- “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us, is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
-Anatole France
- “It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye.”
-Carrie Underwood
- “Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime. We’ll take the best, forget the rest, and someday will find that these are the best of times.”
-Styx
- “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
- “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”
-Wendy Wunder
- “The two hardest things to say in life is hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.”
-Moira Rogers
- “A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
-Helen Rowland
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A farewell speech carries even more power than you think. If you shape it into a beautiful speech, it could also resolve all the serious fights and problems you had either with your peers or colleagues. Therefore, focus on your final speech at a particular place in order to leave your school, office, or any other place with respect and love of all the people around. Let all the moments that you’ve spent be the happening ones and not the ones that you’ll regret your entire life.
