We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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

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

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

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.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

In every parting there is an image of death.

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.