Short farewell messages are harder to write than long ones because every word is doing more work. There is no room to warm up or wind down.
What is there has to be exactly right from the first word and it has to feel like something a real person said rather than something generated to fill a space.
These one-liners here were written with two things in mind: every single line has a different shape and rhythm from the one before it, and no two lines start the same way twice in a row. Some are for work farewells. Some are personal. Some work anywhere. And some are for the kind of goodbye where a laugh is the most honest response.
Short Work Farewell Messages
For the card, the message or the moment when the right line is all that is needed.
1. Farewell. The next place is very lucky.
2. Go well. You will be missed here.
3. The gap you leave is real. All the best.
4. Onwards. You were brilliant here.
5. Thank you for everything. Go do great things.
6. Well earned. Well deserved. Farewell.
7. The standard stays after you leave. Thank you.
8. Leaving but not forgotten. All the best.
9. Farewell. Come back and tell us everything.
10. You made this place better. Thank you.
Short Personal Farewell Messages
When the person leaving is someone you will actually miss and one line is enough to say it.
11. Same us. Different map. All the best.
12. Go well. Miss you already.
13. The friendship does not move with you. It stays the same. Farewell.
14. Distance is just inconvenience. See you soon.
15. Wherever you land you will thrive. Farewell.
16. Miss you before you have even left. Go well.
17. The world gets you next. Lucky world.
18. New place. Same brilliant person. All the best.
19. You leave a gap shaped exactly like you. Farewell.
20. Keep in touch. That is not a suggestion.
General Farewell One-Liners
Works for any farewell and any relationship. Clean, direct and right on first read.
21. Every ending worth having leads somewhere better.
22. What comes next looks very right from here. Farewell.
23. Go well. Come back often.
24. Until next time. And there will be a next time.
25. Endings this good are just beginnings in disguise.
26. One of the good ones. Farewell.
27. Safe travels. In every sense.
28. All the best. Mean every word of it.
29. Make somewhere new feel like somewhere worth being.
Funny Farewell One-Liners
For the goodbye where a laugh is the most honest and appropriate thing.
30. Goodbye. We will pretend we are fine.
31. Terrible decision. Best of luck with it.
32. You could have stayed. You chose chaos. Respect.
33. Come back when you miss us. We give it three weeks.
34. Farewell. The office plants will miss you most.
35. Go well. Try not to replace us immediately.
36. The audacity of leaving. Farewell anyway.
37. For now. Emphasis on the for now.
Final Thoughts
A one-liner farewell that lands is one that sounds like it was chosen rather than defaulted to. Every line in this list was written to pass that test. Pick the one that sounds most like you and send it.
Bookmark this page for the next farewell that needs just the right line. And if one of these is already exactly it, use it today.