Quotes About Separation

I guess the difference between Gin and me is that when Gin got shut in the barn she thought Edmond didn't love her anymore but because I could feel Edmond out there somewhere always loving me I didn't have to howl all night.

I am not a vine, to twist my life and twine about a strong column like yourself. Rather we have been as two strong trees that grew side by side, but must eventually lean apart from one another. You would not have me in your shade, would you, stunted and misshapen?

Attolia had brushed Eugenides's cheek almost shyly before sending him with a wave back to his own couch.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul.

But of course, we had to part—always—because, well, because that was life. It was full of unsavory things I didn't want to do, like dishes and homework … and saying good-bye.

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us…. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. —Albert Einstein

He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

Bonds are made to be broken, he said. Just like rules.

He squeezed her hand one last time. Then Jack was gone and she was alone.

Once the bond was sealed, it could not be broken for this cycle. Schuyler would become nothing more than a distant memory.

This was the nightmare that had plagued her for months...the same despair that washed over her now. She was losing him.

Thank you, she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Dylan leaned down, and she could feel his lips, soft and inviting, gently kissing hers. Then Dylan was gone.

We're learning, through trial and error, to separate our will from God's will. We're learning that God's will is not offensive. We've learned that sometimes there's a difference between what others want us to do and God's will. We're also learning that God did not intend for us to be codependent, to be martyrs, to control or caretake. We're learning to trust ourselves. . . . and the power to carry that through.

the trials and tensions of the world take us back behind our ego where the Divine Self is waiting, that part I know is truth. We aren't the God of the Western world, but each of us is a piece of the Divine. Pain and loss initiate us to our oneness with each other, God, and life. Nothing can separate us from God, no matter how alone we feel.

Problems are a part of life. So are solutions. People have problems, but we, and our self-esteem, are separate from our problems.

I felt that her tears would trickle out of the telephone and on to my hands.

In a dog's world, only three states existed: now, in a while, and forever. If someone left, he was gone forever, and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone forever.

The Long Way Home Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other? Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?

Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear—against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect—to find ourselves in the other.

Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known.

At the time, recently separated from a partner of almost fifteen years, I was often overwhelmed by grief so profound it seemed as though an immense sea of pain was washing my heart and soul away.

close the wounds, and the 22-hour surgical ordeal was over. The Siamese