Shakespeare Parting Quotes & Sayings

Parting is such sweet sorrow — William Shakespeare

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen

I don't need any explanation about what you do with your life. You and I ... we grew up together,and that's it. Yeah, we shared a lot of stuff back then, and we were there for each other when it mattered.
But neither one of us can fit into the clothes we used to wear , and this relationship between us is just the same.
It doesn't fit in our lives any longer.
We don't ... fit anymore. And listen., I didn't mean to get pissy in the truck, but I think you need to be clear on this.
You and I? We have a past. That's it.
That's ... all we'll ever have (Blay to Qhuinn) ... — J.R. Ward

For the time being you, too, are toying, out of despair, with your magazine articles and drawing-room discussions without believing in your own dialectics and smirking at them with your heart aching inside you — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. — William Shakespeare

I have more care to stay
than will to go. — William Shakespeare

Love those you hate you. — Leo Tolstoy

The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination and desire. Achieving success and personal glory in athletics has less to do with wins and losses than it does with learning how to prepare yourself so that at the end of the day, whether on the track or in the office, you know that there was nothing more you could have done to reach your ultimate goal. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage. — Darren Walker

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. — Herman E. Daly

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. — Bob Gibson

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow. — William Shakespeare

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing. — Jessica Brown Findlay

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. — William Shakespeare

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. — James Baldwin

Here's how I see your weight - it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives. I'd never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself. — Oprah Winfrey

We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world ... When children are ailing or babies refuse to be born, when men are unfaithful, when the sky is empty of rain, when the amulets buried beneath holy wall upon instructions of the minim offer not solace and all entreaties to the priests for guidance fail, when the rituals they offer bring no comfort and no consolation, they come to us. — Alice Hoffman

Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly,
Grasps in the comer. — William Shakespeare