Quotes About Separation

Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

He turned away and stumped on down the road leaving her to follow. The view from the back was that of an old man, thin, frail, intolerable to live with, intolerable to think of as one day not being there because then she would have nothing to live for herself.

What I had learned on the border from the mothers intending to cross was not that they wished to make a new life in the States, but that they hoped, as a solution, to make enough money to keep their family together in Mexico.

No one ever came here; people just went away from it and never returned.

they had been summoned to Mexico for a family emergency and had been unable to return.

an ugly steel fence you might associate with a prison perimeter, twenty-five feet high, like nothing I had seen in any other country.

Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

los días se le hacían demasiado largos porque solamente pasaba diez minutos con el amor de su vida, y miles de horas pensando en él.

I can't be in love with a man who lives in another world.

The world has never been as divided as it is now.

I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours

They were, yet again, traveling in opposite directions, no matter how hard they tried to reach one another.

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend

Life sometimes separates people so that they may realize how much they mean to each other.

Que mis lágrimas corran así bien lejos, para que mi amor nunca sepa que un día lloré por él.

True love could withstand such a separation.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

We suffer... because of three tragic misunderstandings. First, we expect that what is always in the process of change should be graspable and predictable... Second, we proceed as if we are separate from everything else, as if we are a fixed identity, when our true situation is egoless... Third, we look for happiness in all the wrong places. The Buddha called this habit "mistaking suffering for happiness.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.