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# Weekend Words: Farewell
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-farewell/
- Published: 2017-09-03T13:30:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:26:41.000Z
- Description: "I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell."
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Art, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Jacques-Louis David, “The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis” (1818), oil on canvas, 87 x 103 cm, private collection (image via Web Gallery of Art)

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> I’ll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.  
>  
> **―Haruki Murakami, *Kafka on the Shore***

> Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.  
>  
> **—J. R. R. Tolkien**

> While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.  
>  
> **—Mary Wortley Montagu**

> All farewells should be sudden, when forever.  
>  
> **—George Gordon, Lord Byron**

> Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!  
> A farewell, and then forever!  
>  
> **—Robert Burns, “Ae Fond Kiss”**

> The return makes one love the farewell.  
>  
> **—Alfred de Musset**

> Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.  
>  
> **―John Steinbeck, *The Winter of Our Discontent***

> Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.  
>  
> **―Boris Pasternak, *Doctor Zhivago***