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Quotes About Separation

While many good friends stood by us and stood up for us, we knew that we had obviously become a problem for the majority. So taking great care not to split the church by forcing people to take sides, we quietly left.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
My love, I'm here. I'll wait my whole life through until you're done, there in the cove at Kamouraska. Until you wash your blood-soaked hands and make your way back to me
~ Anne Hebert
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
~ Anne Heche
Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
~ Anne Michaels
Death's in the good-bye.
~ Anne Sexton
Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ...
~ Anne Sexton
You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
~ Anne Sexton
Now he is gone as you are gone. But he belongs to me like lost baggage.
~ Anne Sexton
I've multiplied, I'm 2. He was part of me he came out of me, he took a part of me He took me apart. I'm 2, he's my art, no, he's separate. He art one. I'm not done & I'm still one. I sing of my son. I've multiplied. My heart's in 2, half to him & half to you, who are also a part of him, & you & he & I make trio of kind congruity.
~ Anne Waldman
er kann sich nicht entscheiden und er muss. Am Ende lässt er seine Kinder mit ihr ziehen, er bleibt zurück [...]. Die Tür hat sich hinter den dreien längst geschlossen, da steht er noch und möchte weinen weinen weinen, und wir, wir stehen in der fernen Zeit und stehen und finden keinen Satz und keinen Vers und keine Zeile, die etwas andres möchte als zu stehen mit ihm und zu weinen.
~ Anne Weber
Fond as [Naomi James] was of her faraway fiancé, another solo sailor, 'I'm a natural loner because as long as I know [my fiancé] is alive and well, I don't really worry about him. He has his life to live and I've got mine, and if I can survive then I'm sure he can.
~ Anneli Rufus
The metaphors that Sumnun the Lover used to express the ineffable experience of this love, of which he was only a fragile vessel, are not taken from the vocabulary of worldly love. Rather, they are perfectly chaste, lucid, almost immaterial: "I have separated my heart from this world— My heart and Thou are not separate. And when slumber closes my eyes, I find Thee between the eye and the lid." (A 10:310)
~ Annemarie Schimmel
she felt more alive than she had ever imagined anyone could feel. When they were apart, it now almost felt as thought she were , but half alive.
~ Annette Blair
Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man ... it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but ... there is no such thing as Death at all.
~ Annie Besant
Yo andaba sudorosa de un lado a otro ante su mirada imaginaria por el Boulevard des Italiens, mientras él estaba en cualquier otro lugar, inaccesible.
~ Annie Ernaux
Je voyais, de plus, que mon intuition avait dû être juste : c'est à la mi-mai que « quelque chose » s'est passé (de même que quelque chose a eu lieu vers la fin novembre), le détachant définitivement de moi.
~ Annie Ernaux
Je voulais dire, écrire au sujet de mon père, sa vie, et cette distance venue à l'adolescence entre lui et moi. Une distance de classe, mais particulière, qui n'a pas de nom. Comme de l'amour séparé.
~ Annie Ernaux
Una vertigine dell'immutabile, come se nella società non fosse cambiato nulla. Nella confusione delle voci, percepite d'un tratto come separate dai corpi, sapevamo che il pranzo di famiglia era un luogo in cui poteva sopraggiungere la follia e ci si sarebbe potuti trovare a rovesciare il tavolo urlando.
~ Annie Ernaux
Entre ce qui arrive dans le monde et ce qui lui arrive à elle, aucun point d'intersection, deux séries parallèles, l'une, abstraite, toute en informations aussitôt oubliées que perçues, l'autre en plans fixes.
~ Annie Ernaux
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
~ Anonymous
I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
~ Frances McDormand
I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.
~ Ana Ivanovic
I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.
~ Andy Dick
I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.
~ Naga Chaitanya