The Sopranos TV - The Italian Job 1969 - Rab C Nesbitt TV - Robert Graves - George Eliot - William Shakespeare - Jack Kerouac - J D Salinger - John Steinbeck - Scott of the Antarctic 1948 - Miss Meadows 2014 - Thomas Hardy - F Scott Fitzgerald -
You’re a dangerous fuck. And I don’t want you in my life. The Sopranos s3e12: Amour Fou starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Tony to bird, HBO 2001
Goodbye, Mr Bridger. The Italian Job 1969 starring Michael Caine & Noel Coward & Benny Hill & Tony Beckley & Raf Vallone & Rossano Brazzi & Maggie Blye & Irene Handl & John le Mesurier & Fred Emney et al, director Peter Collinson
It’s over, Jamie. I must ask you to leave and never return. Rab C Nesbitt: Stool, BBC 2011
Goodbye To All That. Robert Graves, autobiography
In every parting there is an image of death. George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be tomorrow. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet II i 229-230, Juliet to Romeo
Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing life,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! William Shakespeare, Othello III iii 349
What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse. J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor. I was sort of crying. I don't know why. I put my red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, ‘Sleep tight, ya morons!’ I’ll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor. Then I got the hell out. Some stupid guy had thrown peanut shells all over the stairs, and I damn near broke my crazy neck. ibid.
Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-bye 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
Goodbye. God bless and keep you, my dearest. Until ... Scott of the Antarctic 1948 starring John Mills & Christopher Lee & Diana Churchill & Harold Warrender & Anne Firth & Derek Bond & Reginald Beckwith & James Robertson Justice & Kenneth More & Sam Kydd et al, director Charles Frend, music Ralph Vaughan Williams, wife to husband
Too-da-loo. Miss Meadows 2014 starring Katie Holmes & James Badge & Callan Mulvey & Stephen Bishop & Tyler Corbet & Gregory Allen Smith & Saidah Arrika Ekulona & Milly Hopkins & James Landry Hebert & Ava Kolker & Charlotte Labadie & Elle Labadie & Kate Linder et al, director Karen Leigh Hopkins, Miss shoots man
... So, now that you disappear
For ever in that swift style,
You meaning seems to me
Just as it used to be:
‘Good-bye is not worth while!’ Thomas Hardy, Without Ceremony
Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow’s dawn,
And calmly, as if indifferent quite,
You would close your term here, and be gone,
Where I could not follow
With wing of swallow
To gain one glimpse of you ever anon! … Thomas Hardy, The Going
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go. F Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned