farewell quotes

Farewell, fair cruelty.

In every parting there is an image of death.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

The Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.