Quotes About Separation

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell."

You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore....

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.

If you are the land, then I am the sea. I don't need you and you don't need me.

As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.