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Quotes About Separation

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Thou from this land, I from myself am banish'd.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Heavens can witness I love none but you: From my embracements thus he breaks away. O that mine arms could close this isle about, That I might pull him to me where I would! Or that these tears that drizzle from mine eyes Had power to mollify his stony heart, That when I had him we might never part.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Foo shuddered. It had been less than an hour since the cops led Abby away and already he missed her like a severed limb. It was embarrassing. How could hormones and hydrostatic pressure make you feel like this? Love was very unscientific.
~ Christopher Moore
Does a broken heart know from a different location?
~ Christopher Moore
If I am to avoid becoming what I hate , then I have to leave .
~ Christopher Paolini
Every time you leave, I feel as if less of you returns to me.
~ Christopher Paolini
Away, away, you shall fly away, O'er the peaks and vales To the lands beyond. Away, away, you shall fly away, And never return to me. Gone! Gone you shall be from me, And I will never see you again. Gone! Gone you shall be from me, Though I wait for you evermore.
~ Christopher Paolini
side to side. It does not surprise me, though. Always this happens; whenever Eragon and I part, someone attacks him. It's gotten so it makes my scales itch to let him out of my sight for more than a few hours. He's more than capable of defending himself. True, but our enemies are not without skill either. Impatient, Saphira shifted her stance, raising her wings even higher. Nasuada, I am eager to be gone. Is there anything else I should know? No, said Nasuada. Fly swift and
~ Christopher Paolini
Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed. from The Last Runaway
~ Tracy Chevalier (Author)
Tyvara shook her head. "I knew this would happen. I didn't want to become attached to you because I knew, if I did, something would take you away." Suddenly he couldn't stop smiling. She looked up and frowned. "What's so funny?" "I love you, too," he said.
~ Trudi Canavan
Nyasha knew nothing about leaving. She had only been taken to places - to the mission, to England, back to the mission. She did not know what essential parts of you stayed behind no matter how violently you tried to dislodge them in order to take them with you.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
For my own part, I think that Johnston's tactics were right. Anything that could have prolonged the war a year beyond the time that it did finally close, would probably have exhausted the North to such an extent that they might then have abandoned the contest and agreed to a separation.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them. —Fragment of Turfa'n M7
~ Umberto Eco
Having come from the light and from the gods, here I am in exile, separated from them.
~ Umberto Eco
Sürü yeniden toplanacaksa, sürü d???na itilmiÅŸlerin yeniden bulunmas? gerekliydi.
~ Umberto Eco
The fact was, these issues had become so urgent and feelings ran so high that tolerance was too difficult. All over France the various groups isolated themselves, and didn't go where they would meet their political rivals.
~ Upton Sinclair
To awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to begin to see oneself and one's group the way the outside world saw one; and it was to know a kind of rage. India was now full of this rage. There had been a general awakening. But everyone awakened first to his own group or community; every group thought itself unique in its awakening; and every group sought to separate its rage from the rage of other groups.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Though it was a comfort on occasion to play with the idea that outside this place a whole life waited for me, all the relationships that bind a man to the earth and give him a feeling of having a place.
~ V.S. Naipaul
He knew he could devastate her and drive her from him with a handful of well-chosen sentences. And part of him wanted to do just that. Part of him wanted to banish her and her presumptions from his life. He'd travel further and faster and lighter without her. Then an appalling thought battled through his anger. You sound just like Vanessa .
~ Val McDermid
for did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?
~ Valdimir Nabokov
You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.
~ Valmiki
How utterly death separated the lover from the things he loved! Here by the cabin door he kicked the snow away, and sitting where she had fallen, he played a few of the melodies he had played during those few immortal weeks when they were man and wife.
~ Vardis Fisher