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Quotes About Separation

They acted in only two small events—three, if love counts. Falling in love, like having a baby, rubs against the current of our lives: separation, loss, and death. That is the joy of them.
~ Annie Dillard
I realize that I have left part of myself in a place where I shall probably never come back.
~ Annie Ernaux
J'ai glissé dans cette moitié du monde pour laquelle l'autre n'est qu'un décor.
~ Annie Ernaux
She has no name for that feeling of utter abandonment, nor the feeling that comes over her on fair days, when she stands in the courtyard from the photo, and the voice of the loudspeaker booms front behind the trees, and the music and commercials run together in an unintelligible blur. It is as if she were standing outside the fete, separated from some earlier thing.
~ Annie Ernaux
For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply involved in a subject. The thing that saved me was that I had my camera by my side. It was there to remind me who I was and what I did. It separated me from them.
~ Annie Leibovitz
And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.
~ Anthony Burgess
It seemed to me he was well rid of Maureen, if she really was disturbing him to the extent that it appeared; but being judicious about other people's love affairs is easy, often merely a sign one has not understood their force or complexity.
~ Anthony Powell
But yet his thoughts were very tender to her. Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. We want what we have not; and especially that which we can never have.
~ Anthony Trollope
Home to your own people. How nice! I have no people to go to. I have one sister, who lives with her husband at Riga. She is my only relation, and I never see her.
~ Anthony Trollope
As Lady Eustace, — certainly not. If Frederic does marry her, of course I must know her. That's a different thing. One has to make the best one can of a bad bargain. I don't doubt they'd be separated before two years were over." "Oh, dear, how dreadful!" exclaimed Augusta.
~ Anthony Trollope
Mrs. Grantly had ever loved her daughter dearly, and had been very proud of that great success in life which Griselda had achieved; but in late years, the child had become, as a woman, separate from the mother, and there had arisen, not unnaturally, a break of that close confidence which in early years had existed between them.
~ Anthony Trollope
Perhaps she felt that if the two were engaged, it might be well to keep the lovers separated for awhile, lest they should quarrel before the engagement should have been so confirmed by the authority of friends as to be beyond the power of easy annihilation.
~ Anthony Trollope
Catholic priests could not be Members of Parliament.
~ Antonia Fraser
A thing named is a dead thing, and it's dead because it is set apart…
~ Antonin Artaud
Always we live on islands of one kind or another
~ Anya Seton
The statement that complete separation never will take place is correct enough, (5) though Anaxagoras is not fully aware of what it means. For affections are indeed inseparable. If then colours and states had entered into the mixture, and if separation took place, there would be a 'white' or a 'healthy' which was nothing but white or healthy, i. e. was not the predicate of a subject.
~ Aristotle
Niets is ondraaglijker dan geluk, het is alleen te doen als je weet dat je op het punt staat het te verliezen. Houden van is een activiteit voor vliegvelden en stations, en crematoria natuurlijk.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Liberty to have any meaning had to be based on law, and law in its turn on morality: that is, on justice. For Burke brought to the French Revolution the historic English touchstone of every political pretension: its compatibility with fair and kindly dealing. "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice," he wrote, "neither is safe.
~ Arthur Bryant
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it's language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I've come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Se trata del proceso de separación de los Dundas [...]. El marido era abstemio, no existía otra mujer, y el comportamiento del que se quejaba la esposa consistía en que el marido había adquirido la costumbre de rematar todas sus comidas quitándose la dentadura postiza y arrojándosela a su esposa, lo cual, estará usted de acuerdo, no es la clase de acto que se le suele ocurrir a un novelista corriente.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I didn't want that kiss to ever stop. He didn't seem to, either. But after a time, I realized the drumming sound I heard was not my heart, it was hoofbeats, and they were getting louder. We broke apart, and his breathing was as ragged as mine.
~ Sherwood Smith