Farewell Message Quotes

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon.

Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

[S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and might even die, the ambulance could flash GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU! GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU!

In case I should be blown up before I see you again, I want you to know that it has been marvelous to work for you.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

Farewell! I go to find the Sun!

With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand.

Tell freedom I said hello.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

Now, at the end of my visit to the Philippines, I commend you to Him, to Jesus who came among us as a child. May He enable all the beloved people of this country to work together, protecting one another, beginning with your families and communities, in building a world of justice, integrity and peace.

See you on the other side, kid.

I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I’m glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.