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Quotes About Separation

Why do you fear touching the earth? Does not the concrete separate you from it enough?
~ Chester Brown
Half of my heart is deployed.
~ Author Unknown
Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.
~ Author Unknown
O, keen and bitter words of woe, Goodbye—Farewell—Adieu Which could I choose to send a throe, In thy kind heart so true?
~ Samuel Woodhull, 1851
What anguish gushes from the heart The quivering lip will tell, When "two fond souls" are call'd to part And far from each other dwell.
~ Samuel Woodhull, 1851
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
~ Amy Lowell, "The Taxi"
Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?
~ Author Unknown
And the world came together as the people stayed apart.
~ Author Unknown
I didn't lose you. You lost me. You'll search for me inside of everyone you're with & I won't be found.
~ R.H.Sin
Some plants, some small water creatures give a sort of jellyfish sort of birth by breaking apart, by separating themselves from themselves.
~ H.D.
Negative thoughts are the manifestation of a belief system in which we believe we are separate from each other and from God
~ H.W. Mann
The Book of Revelation refers to the end times. Do not fear the end. Our souls cannot be extinguished. They are eternal. The end times refer to the end of spiritual unconsciousness. That's what the awakening is all about. The end of a nightmare called hell. The end of separation from God. We suffer from spiritual amnesia and spiritual amnesia is the cause of our suffering.
~ H.W. Mann
we are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.
~ Héloïse d'Argenteuil
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?
~ Hanif Kureishi
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
~ Hank Haney
At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
You're getting two C-notes and a one-way ticket. Make sure you never come back this way." He jerked back on her finger. She screamed. "You broke it!" "Your friend don't want to hear from you again, no how, capiche?" She sobbed, dizzy, ready to pass out. "Now when I say no how, he don't want to hear from any lawyer, either. You capiche that?
~ Harold Robbins
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
~ Harper Lee
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
If it were your Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning,—if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, and you had only from twelve o'clock till morning to make good your escape,—how fast could you walk?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Adiós, querida niña! Las brillantes puertas eternas se han cerrado a tus espaldas; no veremos más tu dulce rostro. ¡Ay de los que hemos visto tu entrada en el cielo, cuando despertemos para encontramos a solas con las nubes grises de la vida cotidiana, pues tú te has marchado para siempre!».
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
She had realised that they couldn't be together. She didn't want to make a romantic drama out of it, she didn't want to sigh and mope or scream hysterically to impress others with how awful it all was, even though she felt as if something fundamental, deep within her, had been taken away from her. She was simply trying to cope, to get on with her own normal life. Which, she knew, was something he could not be a part of.
~ Harriet Evans