Quotes About Separation

So many partings in the mind the heart Has not had the courage to follow through.

During the nearly two years of separation from her husband and the society of the Viennese court, the Empress had changed. She had become very self-confident and brisk and had learned to assert her interests vigorously. The Emperor living in constant fear that at the first sign of discord she might run off again and do further damage to the prestige of the August House, treated her circumspectly, showing infinite patience.

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...

Mama," Peter cried. She didn't look up. The door shut.

Disconnection is disease.

The separation between us and them or between us and Nature that we so vividly experience in our reality is an illusion held in place by our beliefs.

seemed to him that every two seconds the fates arranged for him to say goodbye to someone. All of it, of course, leading up to the final send-off.

Since the Fall man is separated from himself. Man is complicated, and he tries to bury himself in himself. Therefore, it will take time and it will cost something to discover what the person we are speaking to often has not yet discovered for himself.138

The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power of one was the courage to remain separate, th think through the truth and not be beguiled by convention or the plausible arguments of those who expect to maintain power, whatever the cost.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

Slowly it floats more and more away

Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

It was the gray sea that bore you and the towering rocks, so sheer the heart in you is turned from us.

Now as these two were conversing thus with each other, a dog who was lying there raised his head and ears. This was Argos, patient-hearted Odysseus' dog, whom he himself raised, but got no joy of him, since before that he went to sacred Ilion. In the days before, the young men had taken him 295 out to follow goats of the wild, and deer, and rabbits; but now he had been put aside, with his master absent

To see the smoke from his loved palace rise, While the dear isle in distant prospect lies

As on the sacred threshing floor wind blows the chaff, while men stand winnowing the crop, when Demeter, with her golden hair, separates the grain from the chaff in the rushing breeze, and piles of chaff grow whiter, so then Achaean troops grew white, covered with dust stirred up by horses hooves.

Combatieron con roedor encono, y se separaron unidos por la amistad.»

As it is, you lie mangled here, and my heart rejects all thought of food. Not that I lack it. I lack you.

When you snatch chimps, dogs, laboratory mice, and a wide variety of other animals away from the group they know and love,* exhaustion overwhelms them, their immune system downshifts, and they begin to waste away.

Roughly 130,000 years ago,1 the diversity generator of creative bickering drove tribes to run an artificial crease down their centers, sorting shoulder-rubbing neighbors into two opposing groups. These primordial forms of fabricated cleavage, known to anthropologists as moieties, were apparently a way to keep the deformities of inbreeding at bay.