Quotes About Separation

Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there.

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

You are beautiful, he said, But I will have to leave you.

Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there.

Vê um jovem que se afasta da vida dela e se vai, parra sempre inacessível. Hipnotizada, nada pode fazer senão olhar esse pedaço da sua vida que se afasta, não pode senão olhá-lo e sofrer. Experimenta uma sensação inteiramente nova que se chama nostalgia.

It takes so little,so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the boarder, where everything - love, conviction, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides in the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even direct contact with, that boarder, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.

Anyone who decides to leave his country forever has to resign himself never to see his family again.

Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

We live in two different dimensions, you and I.

Silence lay between them like an agony.

Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.

El banquete de Platón: los humanos eran antes hermafroditas y Dios los dividió en dos mitades que desde entonces vagan por el mundo y se buscan. El amor es el deseo de encontrar a la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos.

Se divorziamo, in fondo nonn cambierà nulla! Non perderai nulla! Ti lascio tutto quello che ho! -Non è questione di quello che mi lasci - disse lei. -E allora di che? -Di amore - sorrise lei. -Di amore? - si meraviglió Franz. -L'amore è lotta - disse Marie- Claude, sempre soridendo. -Lotterò a lungo. Fino alla fine. -L'amore è lotta? Io non ho nessunissima voglia di lottare. - disse Franz e usci.

Intuía que, si se reunía con alguna mujer, el recuerdo de Teresa se haría al instante insoportablemente doloroso.

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

Puede que un hombre y una mujer estén más cerca el uno del otro cuando no viven juntos y cuando simplemente saben que existen y están agradecidos por existir y por saber el uno del otro. Y sólo con esto les basta para ser felices.

A emigração é difícil também do ponto de vista puramente pessoal: pensa-se sempre na dor da nostalgia; mas o que é pior é a dor da alienação; o termo alemão die Entfremdung exprime melhor o que quero designar: o processo ao longo do qual o que nos for próximo se tornou estranho.

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

So, what now? We're friends?" Yeah. If friends could be in love, but not together. In sync, but out of touch. Willing to die for each other, but unable to trust.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.