Quotes About Separation

People change. Feelings rearrange. Lovers drift. Friends have fits. Friends become enemies. Lovers become strangers. It's life.

We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.

Live as long as you want, but you must die; Love whatever you want, but you will become separated from it; And do what you want but you will repaid for it...

When your heart aches, just remember God knows what's best, and when the times is right God will show you the difference between people who are meant to play a part in your life and those who are meant to be apart of your life.

Distancing has 3 reasons: Either you hate that person, you want to move on, or you're too scared to fall completely for that person.

The test of friendship doesn't come when you're together. It comes when you part ways and you realize that despite the distance, the friendship is still there.

I'll never be the one who lies next to you at night. I'll never be the one you dance with and hold ever so tight. I'll never be the one who wipes the tears from your cheeks. I'll never be the one to watch you fall asleep. I'll never be the one that you plan the future with. I'll never be the one that you greet with a kiss. I'll never be the one you walk with in the rain. I'll never be the one but ill love you just the same.

Ô grandes attitudes de l'homme et de la femme où cherchent à se joindre, dans l'innocence des premiers jours et avec l'humilité de l'argile, ce que la création a séparé, où Eve est étonnée et soumise devant l'homme au côté de qui elle s'éveille, comme lui-même, encore seul, devant Dieu qui l'a formé.

But if she had given them all up for me, for ever, I should perhaps have decided even more firmly never to leave her, for while jealousy makes separation difficult, gratitude makes it impossible.

Ma seule consolation, quand je montais me coucher, était que maman viendrait m'embrasser quand je serais dans mon lit. Mais ce bonsoir durait si peu de temps, elle redescendait si vite, que le moment où je l'entendais monter, puis où passait dans le couloir à double porte le bruit léger de sa robe de jardin en mousseline bleue, à laquelle pendaient de petits cordons de paille tressée, était pour moi un moment douloureux.

How I suffered from the position in which careless Nature placed us, when it instituted the separation of bodies from each other, and forgot to provide for the interpenetration of souls!

We had better stop seeing each other, life is forcing us apart." No doubt when I was writing those words to Gilberte, I was saying to myself that when I next loved, not her but some other person, the excess of my love would diminish the love that that person might otherwise feel for me, as if between two people there were inevitably a fixed amount of love, so that where one loved more the other must love less, and from that other, as from Gilberte, I should be forced one day to separate.

Certainly, the physical heartache which such a separation deals and which, through the body's terrible ability to keep records, renders any pain contemporary with all the periods in our lives when we have suffered,

Albertine had thus premeditated her escape for some time. This was the greatest misfortune of my life. And in spite of everything, the suffering which it caused me was perhaps even exceeded by my curiosity to know the causes of this disaster: whom Albertine had desired, for whom she had left me.

there is a way of separating one's dreams from one's life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.

True individuality can be lonely.

He has departed, withdrawn, gone away, broken out.

Which was the braver, the one who left, or the one who stayed?

Avevano anche fatto l'amore da lontano, più di una volta. Senza dirselo, si erano ritrovati a sudare, a piegarsi in mezzo a un parco, su un autobus. Il pensiero era così forte, erano braccia che aprivano le costole. Come se l'altro stesse cercando il tuo cuore dal lato opposto della città, attraverso muri di macchine e di cemento.

Il pensiero era così forte, erano braccia che aprivano le costole. Come se l'altro stesse cercando il tuo cuore dal lato opposto della città, attraverso i muri di macchine e cemento.

we found that we could subdivide rapprochement into three periods; (1) beginning rapprochement; (2) the rapprochement crisis; and (3) individual solutions of this crisis, resulting in patternings and personality characteristics with which the child enters into the fourth subphase of separation-individuation, the consolidation of individuation.

The normal symbiotic phase marks the all-important phylogenetic capacity of the human being to invest the mother within a vague dual unity that forms the primal soil from which all subsequent human relationships form. The separation-individuation phase is characterized by a steady increase in awareness of the separateness of the self and the "other" which coincides with the origins of a sense of self, of true object relationship, and of awareness of a reality in the outside world.