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In the course of a long life, everyone inevitably experiences partings—whether from romantic relationships or changes in life stages.
Even when a parting is a positive one, it’s only natural that some sadness may linger.
Here, we’d like to introduce a collection of quotes that can gently empathize with such feelings and, at times, give you a strong push forward.
The words left by great figures from around the world—poets, writers, philosophers—resonate with our hearts across all eras.
Please enjoy this lovely collection of quotes you’ll want to give to someone dear who has gone through a farewell.
Table of Contents Beautiful, heartwarming words: A collection of memorable quotes to share with those who have experienced parting. Teach at least the name of one flower to the man you are parting from. Flowers will bloom without fail every year. Yasunari Kawabata Do not pursue. Not pursuing is the code of chivalry in love. Chiyo Uno If it doesn’t get dark, you can’t see the stars. Charles Beard It’s a common case to win in first love and fail in life, and there’s even a view that it’s better for one’s first love to end in heartbreak. Yukio Mishima Anyone who has never experienced failure has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein Remember this: even in the moments when it feels like you’ve lost everything, your future still remains. Bob Dylan There are moments when everything changes. Things you used to lament suddenly start to feel trivial. Iris Murdoch What saves us from love is not so much reason as busyness. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley If we had nothing to regret, life would become very empty. Vincent van Gogh The strongest person in the world is the one who stands alone, in solitude. Henrik Ibsen Just try believing in yourself. Tomorrow will surely come into view. Goethe Unless one has eaten bread with tears, one cannot know the taste of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People are often deceived by love, hurt by love, and even made unhappy. Even so, they still fall in love. Alfred de Musset Trust others, but trust yourself a hundred times more. Osamu Tezuka Do not lament just because you’ve lost one person. Men and women are half and half in this world. Dai Sheng If you don’t fail, you won’t succeed. Coco Chanel A good farewell brings new encounters. John Gray It’s extremely rare to part ways skillfully. If things were truly going well, you wouldn’t break up in the first place. Marcel Proust People aren’t thrown away by others. The only thing you can do is abandon yourself. Banana Yoshimoto In the past, doff your hat in respect; in the future, take off your coat and face it head-on. Clare Boothe Luce Anyone who has the courage to love inevitably has the courage to suffer. Anthony Trollope I now know what love is. Vergilius Every event has meaning. To live is to understand that meaning. Suzanne Somers Life is made up of meetings, connections, and farewells. Between the moment we meet and the moment we part, there are joys and sorrows, and getting through them safely is what it means to live. Jakuchō Setouchi You never get used to the pain of parting. No matter how many times it happens, farewells are painful and bitter. Even so, we cannot help but love others until the day we die. That is what it means to be human. Jakuchō Setouchi If two people love each other, a happy ending is impossible. Ernest Hemingway If you keep looking down, you won’t be able to find a rainbow. Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin The fire of love sometimes leaves the ashes of friendship. Henri de Régnier Do not abandon the hero within your soul. Nietzsche If you don’t give up, there will always be a way. Always. Sakichi Toyoda People say heartbreak is unbearably painful, but I think there’s a part of us that actually enjoys reminiscing about a love that’s already ended. If it were truly unbearable, we’d be doing everything we could to forget it even a second sooner. Chiyo Uno Sorrow melts away, like snow in May, so that nothing remains that could be so cold. George Herbert Happiness is always decided by your own heart. Mitsuo Aida Love is eventually healed by another love. John Dryden Love the life you live, and live the life you can love. Bob Marley No matter what sorrow you encounter, life is still worth living. Yuka Murayama Nothing we experience in this world is in vain; both joy and sorrow teach us how to live well. Shugoro Yamamoto What matters is not avoiding a fall, but getting back up quickly. Shigeta Saitō Because we dream, life shines. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A love that ends in disappointment becomes a small immunity against the next one. Ursula Andress There are two ways for a woman to become more beautiful: to fall in love well, and to quit a bad love. Akemi Hamao A woman who has cried enough tears to wash her eyes gains a wider field of vision. Dorothy Dix Even if everything is lost, the future still remains. Christian Bovey If getting my heart broken would make me lose weight, I’d want to be heartbroken as many times as it takes. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette On any path, do not grieve partings. Miyamoto Musashi Do not try to become a person of success. Strive to become a person of value. Albert Einstein Friendship is often a pretense, and love is little more than folly. Shakespeare If you want to see a rainbow, you have to put up with a little rain. Dolly Parton Time heals the wounds of sorrow and strife. Everyone changes. The person I was is no longer the person I am. Both the troubled and the tormentor become different people as time passes. Pascal No problem is so big or difficult that you can’t get away from it. Charles M. Schulz A heart full of love is also one laden with sorrow. Dostoevsky Being loved is not happiness; it is loving that is happiness. Hermann Hesse Love is like a fever: it arises and fades away regardless of our will. Stendhal What is called a beginning is often an ending, and putting a period to something is a new beginning. The terminus is the point of departure. T. S. Eliot Today is the perfect day to seize the opportunity. John C. Maxwell Saying goodbye is to die a little. Raymond Chandler There is no such thing as a mistake. A mistake is a blessing from which you can always learn something. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross I can’t believe there’s a sorrow in this world that even a hot bath up to the shoulders can’t soothe. Susan Glaspell You just need to find something you can laugh off. Maya Angelou In the realm of love, becoming disappointed early is typically portrayed as a remedy for recovery. Miguel de Cervantes Nothing motivates a person to take action quite like heartbreak. Akihiro Nakaya Life is a game where you keep accumulating things to lose. Eikichi Yazawa It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Tennyson The heart is something that sheds its past sorrows. Ella Wheeler Wilcox A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she’s in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt Is love a skill? If it is a skill, then knowledge and effort are necessary. Erich Fromm Only those who can love deeply are also capable of experiencing great suffering. Tolstoy By the time we break up, the next love has already begun. Antonio Inoki You cannot reach dawn without passing through the night. Kahlil Gibran Forgiving is not the same as forgetting. It means letting the painful memories flow away and easing the ache in your heart. Mary McLeod Bethune My soul will tell me when it’s time to move forward. Oprah Winfrey A person with a good mindset, even if a bond runs its course and they part ways, will likely soon find another good connection. Hōjō Shigetoki Memories themselves aren’t sad. They become sad because we idealize them. Yasushi Akimoto Only through the intense pain of parting can we see the depths of love. George Eliot There is no such thing as being hurt by a broken heart. It only polishes the soul. Hiroyuki Ehara Beautiful words that touch the heart. A collection of memorable quotes to share with those who have experienced parting (1–10) Teach at least the name of one flower to the man you are parting from. Flowers will bloom without fail every year. Yasunari Kawabata This is a famous quote by Yasunari Kawabata, the first Japanese person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It conveys the sense that parting is inevitable and the desire to leave something behind that shows you were there for the other person.
Rather than offering encouragement, it is a fleeting, heartrending line that stays close to one’s sorrow.
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Do not pursue. Not pursuing is the code of chivalry in love. Chiyo Uno A quote by Chiyo Uno, a Japanese novelist whose many talents led her through a life full of turbulence.
It’s a lesson that could only come from someone like her, with her history of romances and marriages with many notable figures.
It’s a single line that gently advises and stands beside women who don’t know how to step away from a heartrending farewell.
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If it doesn’t get dark, you can’t see the stars. Charles Beard When he came to Japan, Charles Beard—an American historian and political scientist who also helped with the reconstruction after the Great Kanto Earthquake—left behind this famous quote: You cannot see the stars in the light, but in the darkness they shine more brightly than anything.
Those who have experienced parting are surely in darkness now.
I know it is painful, but perhaps it is precisely in that darkness that a certain hope can be seen.
Once you find that hope, you may come to feel that the parting was something necessary for you.
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It’s a common case to win in first love and fail in life, and there’s even a view that it’s better for one’s first love to end in heartbreak. Yukio Mishima A remark by Yukio Mishima, a novelist who represents postwar Japanese literature.
In his later years he focused heavily on political activities, but this quote is quintessentially his, born of his constant contemplation of a better life.
People often say first loves don’t come true, but this is a consoling line that softens that reality—a phrase that truly resonates with the heart.
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Anyone who has never experienced failure has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist known for proposing the theory of relativity and often hailed as the greatest physicist of the 20th century.
His words, “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new,” carry persuasive power precisely because of his monumental achievements.
Interpreting it as ‘your heart aches because you truly cared’ can both acknowledge the feelings of someone who has experienced a breakup and offer comfort.
It’s a powerful quote that can also serve as a catalyst for new beginnings.
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Remember this: even in the moments when it feels like you’ve lost everything, your future still remains. Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, the singer-songwriter also known for being the first musician to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Here’s one of his electrifying famous quotes.
It’s a line that reminds us that as long as we’re alive, there is hope.
If you’ve gone through a breakup, you’re likely stunned by the sense of loss.
You may be denying who you’ve been up to now and feel as if you’ve lost everything.
But your life is far from over.
When your feelings settle, gather your courage and try taking a step forward again.
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There are moments when everything changes. Things you used to lament suddenly start to feel trivial. Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch, the philosopher and novelist famous for the saying “You who taught me how to love, now please teach me how to forget.” Her aphorisms aside, this quote, too, strikes deeply at our hearts.
Parting from someone dear is painful—especially when it’s not what you wanted.
Yet even if it hurts now, time will heal the wounds.
And one day, prompted by something, you’ll realize it wasn’t something to grieve over so much after all.
To consign the farewell to the past, please try to take a step forward.
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What saves us from love is not so much reason as busyness. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the novelist Japan is proud of and best known for his short story Rashomon.
He’s the namesake of the literary Akutagawa Prize.
This is one of his famous quotes, and many people can relate to it.
When something painful happens, quite a few people deliberately pack their schedules and lead busy lives.
Doing so helps them forget the pain and take their mind off things.
If you’re hurting from a recent breakup, why not take this chance to try everything you’ve been wanting to do, one after another?
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Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley A quote from the British writer Aldous Huxley.
Rather than letting sad farewells halt your growth, they become experience only when you take action through them.
It’s a famous saying that jolts us out of mere pessimism about what has happened and urges us to move forward.
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If we had nothing to regret, life would become very empty. Vincent van Gogh As a Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, whose many works such as Sunflowers were recognized after his death, once said, “If there is nothing to regret, life would be very empty.” Perhaps these words were born precisely because he constantly faced hardship.
Even if we end up with regrets, the message that continuing to challenge ourselves turns them into experience and depth offers advice that keeps farewells from being merely sad.
It’s a compelling statement that teaches us everything becomes nourishment for grasping happiness.
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