Quotes About Separation

Yes, I'll follow you, even to death - but I won't live with you any more.

Il y a toujours quelque chose de solennel dans un départ, même quand on se quitte pour peu de temps.

Absence is the enemy of love

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

Though divorce be hard, two never met but had to part.

For a child of five, art is life and life is art... but once the child is in school they get separated--art becomes art and life becomes life.

One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe.

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

Home is never where she is, but where she is not.

The corpse looks to me like a suit left behind.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Woman knows man well enough where he is weak, but she is quite unable to fathom him where he is strong. The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.

It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky. It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence all nights from star to star and becomes lyric among rustling leaves in rainy darkness of July. It is this overspreading pain that deepens into loves and desires, into sufferings and joy in human homes; and this it is that ever melts and flows in songs through my poet's heart.

The fact is that man is as much a mystery to woman as woman is to man. If that were not so, the separation of the sexes would only have been a waste of Nature's energy.

When a material body breaks it may be put together again. But when two human beings are divided, after a long separation, they never re-unite at the same place, and to the same time; for the mind is a living thing, and moment by moment it grows and changes.

Rajalakshmi would send for Bihari and express her grief. Bihari would tell her, 'Ma, when the worm weaves a cocoon there is not much to fear, but when it breaks out and flies away, it is hard to make it return. Who would have thought he would break free of his bond with you in such a manner?

My union with you, my love, was only of the wayside; it was well enough so long as we followed the same road; it will only hamper us if we try to preserve it further. We are now leaving its bonds behind. We are started on our journey beyond, and it will be enough if we can throw each other a glance, or feel the touch of each other's hands in passing. After that? After that there is the larger world-path, the endless current of universal life.

The life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship. In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds.

Though I have a sense of achievement while I am in your company, I have nothing to cling to when I move away.

Thou hast left thy memory as a flame to my lonely lamp of separation

At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was being left behind.

Sometimes, when she has been two or more hours from the source of my body, I begin to feel a sort of elemental anxiety for her, as if she were walking a tightrope and had gone too far out, as if she could not exist for so long in time, in gravity, away from me.

I was working, somehow, to free her from myself, when it appeared that what she needed was to take some of me along with her!

The criticism is more real than you are: it seems, in fact, to have created you. I believe a lot of people walk around with this problem in their heads, and it leads to all kinds of trouble – in my case, it led to my body and my mind getting divorced from each other right at the start, when I was only a few years old.