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Quotes About Partings

It's amazing how you cross paths with people. You work intimately, and then you never see them again the rest of your life, or even speak.
~ Terry O'Quinn
Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
~ Lord Byron
Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
One response to the loss of love, of the beloved, is an understanding of the illusory nature of partings, of the way love can transcend time and space
~ Amanda Haight
There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world
~ L.M. Montgomery
Bayan Lynde'in dediÄŸi gibi, bu dünyada kavuÅŸmalardan ve ayr?l?klardan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey yok.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Life is a progression of partings," said the psychotherapist. "One by one, people—and things too—are taken from us. We lose them, they die, they are shown by us to be things of transitory association." "I'm sorry," said Ulf. "So am I," said Dr. Svensson.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.
~ Jill Ker Conway
The angel of God, having secretly Betrothed us one winter day, Watches over our carefree lives With fixed, darkening eyes Because of this we love the sky, Keen air, the fresh wind And the blackening branches Behind the iron fence. Because of this we love the stern Dark city with its many waterways. And we love our partings, And our brief meetings.
~ Anna Akhmatova
She always answered the questions in a vague fashion, partly because she didn't want to discuss the matter, and partly because she didn't know exactly how she did feel. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Partings are strange. It seems so simple: one minute ago, four, five, he was here, at her side; now, he is gone. She was with him; she is alone. She feels exposed, chill, peeled like an onion.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.
~ Scott Turow
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.
~ George Eliot
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.
~ George Eliot
no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind.
~ George Eliot
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
~ Charles Dickens
So Grant betook himself through the sunny, busy morning to Waterloo, trailing a little cloud of discontent behind him as he went. As he stepped from the warm pavement into the cool vault of the best but saddest of all London stations—the very name of it reeks of endings and partings—gloom sat on his face like a portent.
~ Josephine Tey
She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.
~ Francis Thompson
So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.
~ Brian Patten
Many scores of ladies have come into my life and gone away happy.
~ Saeed Jaffrey
We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.
~ Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly
~ Nevil Shute
I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly
~ Nevil Shute
I have never known how to say goodbye. It is a failing that has been with me all of my life. It's especially problematic, given how often partings have come up.
~ Kristin Hannah