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Quotes About Separation

Na druhou stranu jsem v sobÄ› nechtÄ›la nebo nedokázala nechat zakoÃ…â"¢enit nikoho. Za ?as pÃ…â"¢ijdu i o možnost mít dÄ›ti. Žádná lidská bytost se ode mÄ› neodtrhne s dÄ›sem, s nímž jsem se já odtrhla od svojí mámy jen proto, že se mi nikdy nepodaÃ…â"¢ilo se k ní pÃ…â"¢imknout definitivnÄ›.
~ Elena Ferrante
What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
~ Elena Ferrante
E' un dispiacere la solitudine femminile delle teste, mi dicevo, è uno sciupio questo tagliarsi via l'una dall'altra, senza protocolli, senza tradizione.
~ Elena Ferrante
É tão fácil — pensei — morrer precisamente na vida das pessoas sem as quais não podemos viver?
~ Elena Ferrante
There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.
~ Elena Ferrante
La voluntad de separarse del Todo es el infierno.
~ Elena Garro
De pronto la miro y ya no está. Vuelvo a mirarla, la define su ausencia. Ha ido a unirse a lago que le da fuerza y no sé lo que es. No puedo seguirla, no entiendo hacia qué espacio invisible se ha dirigido, qué aire inefable la resguarda y la aísla; desde luego ya no está en el mundo y por más que manoteo no me ve, permanece siempre fuera de mi alcance. Sé que mi amor la sustenta, claro, pero su ausencia es sólo suya y en ella no tengo cabida.
~ Elena Poniatowska
Criticar al César no es criticar a Roma. Criticar a un gobierno no es criticar al país. •Carlos Fuentes, al reportero Guillermo Ochoa, Excélsior, 4 de marzo de 1969
~ Elena Poniatowska
Reviento lenta y penosamente por el deseo de verte, regresa pronto (…) Me da miedo caer en medio del abismo. Te amo atrozmente, que horroroso aquí sin ti, a pesar de que me dejas sola todo el día...
~ Elena Poniatowska
Who cares about love? Jim replied. That's the easy part. It's only the first part. We were in life together, Alice. We were in life! And if we aren't together now, then we weren't together then? Do you understand?
~ Eli Horowitz
It was terrible to think that he was in this city, possibly very nearby, but I couldn't see him or talk to him because he didn't love me. I couldn't be with him for one minute, not even for the weird leftover hours that nobody else wanted, like from one to three a.m. on a Wednesday.
~ Elif Batuman
I just can't imagine it. I can't imagine you on the other side of the world, at a pay phone on the street.
~ Elif Batuman
love my wife," Francis said. "I love her deeply. I wouldn't be the man I am without her." He shifted in his chair. "That said, were she to leave me, as she has the right to, not to mention the reason, I could bear the absence of her affections.
~ Antoine Wilson
don't think I wanted so much to be married as I was trying to wipe out the anxiety I was feeling about our inevitable drifting apart.
~ Antoine Wilson
The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
I can't be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never find each other again.
~ Antonia Michaelis
To Balkanize has come to be used in a derogatory sense meaning to violently fragment, disrupt or disorganize..
~ Antonia Young
These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.
~ Antonin Artaud
Los caminitos blancos se cruzan y se alejan, buscando los dispersos caseríos del valle y de la sierra. Caminos de los campos... ¡Ay, ya no puedo caminar con ella!
~ Antonio Machado
What had excited most about her from the start was what made him most afraid and what had eventually taken her away from him: the strength of her will.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
The fear of separation is all that unites.
~ Antonio Porchia
We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.
~ Antonio Porchia
Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
~ Antonio Porchia
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
~ Antonio Porchia