Quotes About Separation

One drug dealer made frequent visits to the women's section in the wee small hours for conjugal visits with his wife.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Why is love intensified by absence?

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother's milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

Too often, we try to extort from chosen others the fierce genetic loyalty we long for from our parents and feel for our kids. The fact is, even though our individual DNAs may conjoin to form a zygote and in due time a unique, freestanding being, we remain literally and existentially separate, our union perfect only apart from ourselves.

Good riddance, Yulan must have thought, to finally leave the one-room shack and her in-laws behind.)

How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the pages of the book its burned. Place and time always on my mind. I have so much to say but your so far away.

God created him first with two faces, and separated them" (1:27).

Unconnected consciousness is destruction's keenest tool against the soul.

Charles had not lived. So lately dead that the pain was still the pain of separation and not of total absence, his memory lay against her heart.

People's outlook on Kansas City is always like, 'They let you rap in K.C.?' Or 'How's Dorothy and Toto?' They put Kansas and Kansas City together, when it's really separate.

One of my brothers is a body builder, and the other is an accountant. Both of them live in Australia, so I rarely get to see them. My sister lives in the U.S.

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

I'm always sad when a gig ends. No matter how long the shoot, you become a family for the period of time you are together, and then you separate and rarely see each other for a long time after.

My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.

You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You're away so much and then 18 months later, you're around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.

That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothing that's hurt any more than being away from my little girl and missing days, but I'm lucky.

I guess that's the main thing when someone dies, the realisation that you won't get to be with them and talk to them.