Quotes About Separation

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.