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Quotes About Separation

Nothing is more painful than to wander in the world without the one you love.
~ CLAMP
They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.
~ Clarice Lispector
She had pacified life so well, taken such care for it not to explode. She had kept it all in serene comprehension, separated each person from the rest, clothes were clearly made to be worn and you could choose the evening movie from the newspaper—everything wrought in such a way that one day followed another.
~ Clarice Lispector
E ninguém é eu. E ninguém é você. Esta é a solidão.
~ Clarice Lispector
Falling in love is easy, you see; any idiot can do it. It's falling out of love that's hard.
~ Unknown
Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep.
~ Clifford D. Simak
A young boy was sitting on a pew inside a church when he was approached and asked by a homeless lady, Where are your parents?. The boy said, They will be here today... remarrying after 10 years of separation.
~ Unknown
Our stars weren't meant for their sky. We have never known the same horizon.
~ Clint Smith
When everything has left you, you are alone. When you have left everything, you are lonely.
~ Clive James
Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel.
~ Clive James
No, she was not like a lover to me, for I forgot that she was beautiful, that we had come together in despite of a man, in the deep and growing indifference we felt toward that man. We were join in an infinity so pure that I never thought of death...
~ Colette
Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
~ Herbert Hoover
The quantification of nature, which led to its explication in terms of mathematical structures, separated reality from all inherent ends and, consequently, separated the true from the good, science from ethics.
~ Herbert Marcuse
To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible
~ Herman Bavinck
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.
~ Herta Muller
If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
~ Herta Muller
Nothing had anything to do with me. I was locked up inside myself and evicted from myself. I didn't belong to them and I was missing me.
~ Herta Muller
Mein Vater, sagte Georg, hat das Fahrrad zum Bahnhof mitgenommen, damit er auf dem Hinweg nicht so nahe neben mir gehen muss und auf dem Rückweg nicht an seinen Händen spürt, dass er allein nach Hause geht.
~ Herta Muller
Then you go on talking, about something you never actually mention. And your forehead and mouth are as far apart as they can be.
~ Herta Muller
The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads.
~ Herta Muller
Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside him. It's true he is at Esher with the cardinal, not at home at the Austin Friars. But, he thought, she'll know how to find me. She'll look for the cardinal, drawn through the space between worlds by incense and candlelight. Whereever the cardinal is, I will be.
~ Hilary Mantel
Mirabeau: "If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our seats only at bayonet point. The King can cause us to be killed; tell him we all await death; but he need not hope that we shall separate until we have made the constitution." Audible only to his neighbor, he adds, "If they come, we bugger off, quick.
~ Hilary Mantel
Nem általánosan elfogadott nézet, nem különösebben népszer? gondolat, hogy az embereket sokféle dolog választja el egymástól, és Å'szintén szólva, a halál a legkevésbé fontosak egyike.
~ Hilary Mantel