Quotes About Separation

It was probably a damn sight easier than getting rid of a woman who had found something in him that he didn't have or he didn't care to give.

But then I thought: you left to leave. Staying in his ambience like this is stupid and it is lacerative.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

El sentimiento de soledad, por otra parte, no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos. Y, de verdad, estamos solos.

Ahora bien, todo desprendimiento provoca una herida

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

The ideal story should begin innocently like a fairy-tale, be frightening like a nightmare in the middle, and conclude sadly like a love story ending in separation.

Luego pensamos que un buen relato debe tener un comienzo infantil, un desarrollo terrorífico como una pesadilla y un final amargo como una historia de amor que termina en una separación.

There is a danger the wheat might burn with the chaff.

Bir sure sonra Suleyman da talepleri ile hakikat uzakliga alisti.

If you ever happen to become a clothier-cum-messenger like Esther, you'll soon learn that only wealth, might and legendary romances stir people's curiosity. Everything else is but worry, separation, jealousy, loneliness, enmity, tears, gossip and never-ending poverty.

I didn't want to see you. They told me. I was afraid that I'd still love you. I hoped that you would.

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

First thing we need to do," said Bean, "is split up." "No," said Petra. "I've done this before, Petra. Going into hiding. Keeping from getting caught." "And if we're together we're too identifiable, la la la," she said. "Saying 'la la la' doesn't mean it isn't true.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer I like being missed.

Being with you, and not being with you, is the only way I have to measure time. ~ BORGES ~

When a suicide bomber activates his or her belt, his head is nearly always separated from the top of the torso: it is known to the police as the mushroom effect.

Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

Perhaps that's how I should think of them, Polly thought, the troupe and Miss Snelgrove and Trot. And Sir Godfrey. Not as lost to her, but as removed to this moment in time for safekeeping.