Quotes About Separation

We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

Nada podrá separarnos del amor que Dios nos ha demostrado en Cristo Jesús, nuestro Señor!

How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.

And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.

It felt like he´d taken a piece of her heart with him in his carry-on luggage

It's a lonesome word, but there's no other way to say it. But, this farewell doesn't mean 'never again.' I really like you a lot. So, think of it as a pause until we meet again. -Asaka to Wataru

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

That last thread of real family had snapped. It hadn't been torn apart with the calamity of a cyclone but unravelled in increments, over years.

Stacy waited till she was certain he'd fallen asleep, then slipped free of his grasp, edging backward, leaving his hand lying open on the tent's floor, palm up, slightly cupped, like a beggar's. She imagined dropping a coin into it, late at night on some dark city street; she pictured herself hurrying off, never to see him again.

But this doesn't mean I'm getting attached to you.

I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans alone, afflicted with self-consciousness, imagine ourselves apart.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

Aristophanes says we were all four-legged creatures to start, some the same sex, but most half man and half woman. Zeus was afraid us humans would get too powerful so he sliced us right down the middle, and everybody spends their life looking for the matching piece.

Most generous and loving Father, you are most definitely for us. You didn't spare your own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will you not also, along with Jesus, graciously give us all things? You've justified us, and there is now no condemnation. Jesus, you died for us and you now perpetually live to pray for us and advocate for us. Nothing will ever separate us from your love (Rom. 8:31–35)!

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

The essence of a degree of freedom is that it doesn't depend on anything else.

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.

C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.

Actors are separated all the time.