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Quotes About Separation

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
towards Irma, seemingly burning or giving away every last item that had belonged to him?
~ Rose Tremain
He wanted to say, The person I love most in the world is about to leave me forever, but he knew these words were impossible to utter.
~ Rose Tremain
Li não sei onde que, numa separação, aquele que não ama e' o que diz as coisas carinhosas.
~ Rubem Fonseca
Nosotros no nos hemos separado por completo, pero aún no ha llegado el momento de que volvamos juntos a la carretera. Ahora está adquiriendo conocimientos en otro lugar. No tenemos más remedio que esperar.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Man goes to Man! Cry the challenge through the Jungle! He that was our Brother goes away. Hear, now, and judge, O ye People of the Jungle,— Answer, who shall turn him—who shall stay?   Man goes to Man! He is weeping in the Jungle: He that was our Brother sorrows sore! Man goes to Man! (Oh, we loved him in the Jungle!) To the Man-Trail where we may not follow more.
~ Rudyard Kipling
We of the jungle have no dealings with them. We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go;
~ Rudyard Kipling
Trees and men do not grow together
~ Rudyard Kipling
I see that ye are dogs. I go from you to my own people- if they be my own people.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Other people were in one world; he was in a second. And the distance between their worlds caused other concern and perplexity made them curious about him -- for here he was alone in his world; and there they were gathered together in theirs.
~ Russell Banks
I helped Jiko to her feet and we walked back to the bus stop together, holding hands again. I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can't hold on to water , still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.
~ Ruth Ozeki
If skin marks the border where an I ends and a you begins, then that night they did all they could to cross it.
~ Ruth Ozeki
I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you cannot hold on to water, still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The sound of those doors, locking him in, locking her out, was the sound of her defeat and failure.
~ Ruth Ozeki
She stepped towards the door beneath the sign, then stopped and looked back at him. 'You'll be right here, right?' 'I promise.' 'And you'll stay with me tonight, won't you?' 'Of course. I won't leave you.' I've got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building.
~ Ry? Murakami
To be isolated is always to assert oneself numerically; when you assert yourself as one, that is isolation.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
For me, nothing is more dangerous than recollection. Once I have recalled some life-situation it ceases to exist. People say that separation helps to revive love. That is quite true, but it revives it purely in a poetic way. A life in recollection is the most perfect imaginable; memory gives you your fill more abundantly than all of reality and has a security which no reality possesses.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Finding Nemo
~ Sally Rippin
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
~ Salman Rushdie
I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape it. I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape it. I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape it. There is no way to escape being separated from everyone I love, and all that is dear to me. My actions are my only true belongings. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
~ Salman Rushdie
Once before, my daughter,' she said, ignoring Ahmed's continuing ravings, 'your father and I, whatsitsname, said there was no shame in leaving an inadequate husband. Now I say again: you have, whatsitsname, a man of unspeakable vileness. Go from him; go today, and take your children, whatsitsname, away from these oaths which he spews from his lips like an animal, whatsitsname, of the gutter. Take your children, I say, whatsitsname-both your children,' she said, clutching me to her bosom.
~ Salmon Rushdie
Secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy.
~ Sam Harris
secularism is simply a commitment to keeping religion out of politics and public policy. Your religion is your business, and my religion, or lack of one, is mine. A willingness to build a wall of separation between church and state is what defines secularism—but, as you point out, behind that wall one may be a full-blown religious fanatic, so long as one doesn't try to impose the fruits of one's fanaticism on others.
~ Sam Harris
If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.
~ Joyce Brothers