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Quotes About Separation

But Ruby understands now, this inclination. This desire to slip away. To seclude herself. She understands how it feels to be an island, separate from everyone else, surrounded by nothing but water. Even when she is with people (at school, at Izzy's house, at the pool), she is aware of how alone she is. Nobody can reach her, not really. She and her mother are more similar than different, but she doesn't know how to tell her mom this. What words might explain she understands.
~ T. Greenwood
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
~ T. S. Eliot
God's will is that we, as His people, be separated unto Him for His purpose. As believers, we should endeavor to pursue that sanctification at any cost.
~ T.D. Jakes
Divorce is not merely separating; it is the tearing apart of what was once joined together.
~ T.D. Jakes
We need to be honest with ourselves. We need a place where we can sit down, reflect, and mourn. However, we must be careful not to mourn over the past longer than necessary. After the funeral, there is always a burial. The burial separates the survivor from the deceased, and it is as far as we can go. So you must come to a place of separation and decide to live on.
~ T.D. Jakes
At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.
~ Tabitha Suzuma
Poet? jest ten który odchodzi I ten który odej?? nie mo?e
~ Tadeusz Ró?ewicz
Ultimately...we're all alone in this world
~ Takehiko Inoue
It happened so quickly. One minute I was plucking the flower, and the next I was in his chariot immersed in darkness. I struggled to wrench myself free from his grasp and run away. I twisted as far as I could, hoping to see mother chasing after me. But ahead of me, behind me, on either side of me, everywhere I looked, all I could see was darkness.
~ Tamara Agha-Jaffar
Aurelia sto i enden av rullebanen, synet av flyet som lettet var tåkete, og altfor raskt var det bare en ørliten prikk på himmelen. Gud være med deg, hvisket hun. Så knyttet hun neven mot himmelen. Og du har å komme tilbake, Jack Withers, brølte hun. For vi er ikke ferdige med hverandre.
~ Tamara McKinley
You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
~ Tamora Pierce
Some people should never meet.
~ Tana French
Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.
~ Tana French
Aversion arises because we are so deeply conditioned to feel separate and different from others.
~ Tara Brach
Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
~ Tashi Tsering
My grandmother was fifteen the day of the roundup. She was told she was free because they were only taking small children between two and twelve with their parents. She was left behind. And they took all the others. Her little brothers, her little sister, her mother, her father, her aunt, her uncle. Her grandparents. It was the last time she ever saw them. No one came back No one at all.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
Son," my father said, gripping the dessert spoon like a pitchfork. "I have one thing to say to you, as a black man: Roy is a hostage of the state. He is a victim of America. The least you could do is unhand his wife when he gets back.
~ Tayari Jones
Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you...
~ Taylor Swift
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
~ Taylor Swift
Whatever he decides to do, he'll have to do it without Wendy; they've decided to file for divorce. The reasons are complicated, of course, but one thing is clear: raising a pair of digients is not what Wendy wants from life, and if Derek wants a partner in this endeavor, he'll have to find someone else.
~ Ted Chiang
Until he was taken over by death. Breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.
~ Ted Chiang
Unlike me, he didn't then segue into an endless series of whys—why, if we remain so close, if we can converse so intimately, can you not be with me?
~ Ted Kerasote
Don't know whyThere's no sun up in the sky,Stormy weather,Since my man and I ain't together,Keeps rainin' all the time.
~ Ted Koehler