Quotes About Separation

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.

I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.

Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.

You know very well that it will never be I who will leave you. It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.

remember that it is the dead alone with whom we are not likely to meet again on this earth.

the tree forsakes not the flower—the flower falls from the tree." "My

I should be much displeased at this, not because of any loss that it might occasion, but because I should no longer have the assurance that, whenever I wish, I can separate myself from the rest of the world.

Delays only double grief when one has to part ...

maintenant tu ne peux plus m'offrir ni joies, ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris ! adieu !

Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.

The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed for each other!

Oui, ma fille, dit Monte Cristo ; tu sais bien que ce n'est jamais moi qui te quitterai. Ce n'est point l'arbre qui quitte la fleur, c'est la fleur qui quitte l'arbre.

No es el árbol el que abandona a la flor, sino la flor la que abandona al árbol.

Un ceas de când te-am p?r?sit, e un veac de când nu È›i-am mai spus: Te iubesc.

Nos, Margit, esküdjék meg, hogy ha meghalok önért - mint ahogy valami szomorú elÅ'érzet súgta -, megÅ'rzi és néha-néha megcsókolja ezt a fejet, melyet hóhér választ el a törzsétÅ'l.

Despotism, suspicious by its very nature, views the separation of men as the best guarantee of its own permanence and usually does all it can to keep them in isolation. No defect of the human heart suits it better than egoism; a tyrant is relaxed enough to forgive his subjects for failing to love him, provided that they do not love one another...he gives the name of 'good citizens' to those who retreat into themselves.

Thus, it seems to me beyond doubt that, if one section of the Union seriously decided to split off from the rest, not only could no one prevent its happening but that no one would attempt to do so. The present Union will, therefore, last only as long as all the constituent states continue to wish to belong.

You don't forget the people you love, she told him. That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. Annie to Pete