Quotes About Separation

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.

More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

naked and alone we came into exile

precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experiences. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time ad space without you.

When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself over there, you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart from me.

Just because we love each other doesn't mean that we're meant to be together, right?

I wish i were the rain that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle.

I just keep practicing saying goodbye to you

People left one another, and got left, every day. It was a terrible thing. But it happened and people survived, as they survived worse things.

Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together.

And then, Lance walked out on her right after the holidays, no warning at all, unless you count years of unhappiness as a warning.

Wherever he was, he was onto something else, growing up without her, leaving her more alone than she already was.

There was a gulf between those who had had their community smashed and their future thrown completely into question, and those for whom life still moved in an intelligible stream. It was not unlike the line that separated those who had come back from the war and those whose lives had been going on continuously while they had been away.

Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but that's no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but it's to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

although surely she realized that space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.

Space is merely a device to prevent everything from being in the same spot.

safe guidelines for your conversation. Mr. Wrangle went one step further. He doesn't feel it would be emotionally beneficial—for either one of you—to converse at all. He feels that poignant dialogue will merely make your separation