Quotes About Separation

I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.

I thought about Patrick, and the fact that even as I had collected my things from his flat, [...] my sadness was never the crippling thing I should have expected. I didn't feel desolete, or overwhelmed, or any of the things you should feel when you split apart a love of several years. I felt quite calm, and a bit sad and perhaps a little guity - both at my part in the split, and the fact that I didn't feel the things I probably should.

Evil's ultimate goal is to divide us and separate us from God," he said. He distracts, discourages, distorts, and creates doubt so that we will be divided from God, divided from each other and from ourselves.

Your children grow into adults, and they leave, and they make a life of their own. It's the way the world turns, he said.

Taken on its own terms, pragmatism's folly is that it separates intelligence from wisdom. Its greatest sins are arrogance and deceit, including self-deceit. It is arrogant because it assumes the individual—particularly the expert—can know everything he needs to know without reference to received wisdom

Witchcraft separates and isolates. Beware of separation through isolation. Isolation is a solid weapon of witchcraft

Witchcraft operates best in a whirlwind that gets everyone on edge, stirred up and at each other's throats. [...] People operating in witchcraft are masters at pitting people against one another in order to separate and isolate them.

It clearly wasn't the best choice. I should've used two emails—one personal, one for work," she said.

The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her. Faith, Hope and Brenda.

Time is nothing more than the longest distance between two places." I said, "Tennessee Williams.

but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you

Leaving is never easy," said Tom. "Even when you know you have to go.

I can't be your ghost right now. I need to exist

We have so separated ourselves, person from person and group from group, in the city, that we have made hatred a dreadfully easy emotion. It comes to us as lightly and insidiously as the symptoms of an unconsciously harboured disease.

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

Religion in the form of polytheism entered the world as the vindication of power. Not only was there no separation of church and state; religion was the transcendental justification of the state.

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

the earth, while someone passed a few feet beyond the fence.

Charming as she was, it never pays a Djin to get close to people. Never. Take it from one who knows.

Blood will separate, if need be, but its call is primordial, and it won't be refused.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

He left her on the tow-path and began the long walk back to barracks. As he trudged along in the fast-gathering dusk his mood grew bleaker. Females created nothing but trouble.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.