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

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.  Quote by ~ Richard Bach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Verse by ~ Dale Evans

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.  Quote by ~ 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
Verse by ~ Francis Thompson