Quotes About Separation

My second marriage to Jessica just fell apart. It was nothing to do with restaurants.

I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was still a very segregated South.

My father saw a separation between Johnny Cash the entertainer, his business, and the person. The good ole boy. He carried that with him. Or he tried to. Sometimes the lines got crossed.

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Bridges join places that were separated. They are built for the sake of progress and for the average citizen. They even have a religious dimension. Even the word 'religious' comes from the Latin, meaning 'creating a link.'

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.

Human beings could be defined as the keepers of a wall of separation dwelling at the threshold between dimensions longing to meet. As long as we insist being attached to the wall, these dimensions will keep on causing destruction and misery in our life. All human pain and troubles are basically due to our stubbornness in preserving this wall.

On the inner and spiritual level, we are all united even if we do not want it. On the outer and material level, we are all separate, even if we do not want it. The art of healing involves the management of this paradox.

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

when you are the only passenger if there is a place further from me I beg you do not go

Dear: I am dying without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come. Best always, Frank

if there is a place further from me I beg you do not go Frank O'Hara, from "Morning Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

I wonder who's kissing her now, Wonder who's teaching her how.

The pulpit elevates the clergy to a position of prominence. True to its meaning, it puts the preacher at center "stage"—separating and placing him high above God's people.

Ni siquiera podré dejarla—pensó amargamente—: no, no puedo. Excepto por la puerta de la muerte, soy incapaz de separarme de ella. Pero lo que exista entre nosotros de ahora en adelante será como un valioso jarrón roto al caer al suelo y que ha sido hábilmente reparado, rehecho. Pero, ¡Dios santo, qué aspecto tan lamentable tienen las grietas a la luz del día!

I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.

This compartmentalized world, this world divided in two, is inhabited by different species.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Did I really want or need to know? What difference would it make if he were dead or alive, since dead or alive I should never see him again? But could I be certain? Was it completely and utterly out of the question for the door to open and for him to walk in? And wasn't I even now listening for his footstep?

The epistemological separation of colony from metropolis, the systemic occultation of the colonial labour on which imperial prosperity is based, results in a situation in which... the truth of metropolitan existence is not visible in the metropolis itself

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.