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Quotes About Separation

I am fond of lovers but I cannot love, I am too far away, am banished
~ Franz Kafka
Oh God, I wish you were not on this earth, but entirely within me, or rather that I were not on this earth, but entirely within you; I feel there is one too many of us; the separation into two people is unbearable.
~ Franz Kafka
it's impossible to understand how my breast could expand and contract to breathe this air, it's impossible to understand how you can be far away.
~ Franz Kafka
It follows, perhaps, that we are now both married, you in Vienna, I to my fear in Prague, and that not only you, but I too, tug in vain at our marriage.
~ Franz Kafka
In Kafka's story Wedding Preparations in the Country, Edward Raban fantasizes about splitting into two forms: one, to remain in bed all day, dreaming; the other, to go forth and conduct the business of the world.
~ Franz Kafka
a human can't last for long without a heartbeat, and as long as you are turned away how can my heart go on beating?
~ Franz Kafka
Perhaps the logical conclusion is that we're both married, you in Vienna, I to my fear in Prague.
~ Franz Kafka
My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?
~ Deborah Sampson
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
~ Rumi
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.
~ Robert Byrd
I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel.
~ Shashi Tharoor
The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional watchdog.
~ Luther Strange
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.
~ Suze Orman
I love New York. I first came here with my Mom when I was in 9th grade. I took the subway for the first time and the doors closed between me and my Mom, and I was so scared. I could see her through the window and I didn't know what to do. I got off at the next stop and she caught up to me, but I couldn't stop crying.
~ Skylar Grey
I don't care if I never see Texas again.
~ Rafer Johnson
I'm close with my whole family, but it requires email and texting because they don't all live nearby!
~ Erika Christensen
I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
~ Amanda Lindhout
In the immediate aftermath of the separation I just wrote and wrote and wrote. And wrote and wrote and wrote. Thank God I had that as an outlet.
~ Pegi Young
You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
~ Utkarsh Ambudkar
The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.
~ Chris Gardner
My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
~ Manny Montana
Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.
~ Kirstie Alley
The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
~ Brandi Carlile
I was away from my husband for many years when I wasn't with WWE, and that was the hardest thing.
~ Maryse Mizanin