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Quotes About Separation

So far away and yet you feel so close.
~ Unknown
And though in embraces dear I would press you to my heart, I without them must depart, For, alas! your arms I fear.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Who'll believe that when one star Oft unites two happy lovers, Now one star, Estrella, comes Two to tear from one another?
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The result of joining two solitudes will always be a greater solitude.
~ Unknown
Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.
~ Peggy Noonan
he'd gone to Kennedy with her and kissed her goodbye tenderly and said he would miss her. 'I'll miss you too,' said Fleur, hugging him hard at passport control.
~ Unknown
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill Which severs those it should unite; Let us remain together still, Then it will be good night. How can I call the lone night good, Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight? Be it not said, thought, understood -- Then it will be -- good night. To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light, The night is good; because, my love, They never say good-night.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
No more let life divide what death can join together.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
cada uno a su casa y Dios a la de todos
~ Unknown
To walk in a deep and consistent level of the anointing requires a price of personal sacrifice—spending more time with God than with people, fasting, and separating yourself in prayer and study of the Word. The anointing activates the presence of God, mixing it with a person's faith, and brings deliverance to the body, mind, and spirit.
~ Unknown
It's sad when people break up.
~ Pete Townshend
To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.
~ Peter Ackroyd
When these people, my mother and people like her, came out here it was like leaving a reality; leaving a planet; turning your back. I guess we don't appreciate it was such a big deal that they may never come back, never see their family again. – John Savi?
~ Unknown
And as I write this, Romans 13:1 recently made the rounds on the American political scene to shield the administration from criticism for separating illegal immigrants from their children at the border—which is just one of many reasons why politicians should not be allowed near a Bible without adult supervision.
~ Unknown
God's act of salvation in Exodus hearkens back to God's act of creation in Genesis, when God separated the waters on the second and third days of creation. Saving Israel is a divine act of "re-creation.
~ Unknown
Thousands of years of solitude. Eons of running from the grief of his passing. And now here he was, pressed up against her again
~ Peter F. Hamilton
No humans lived in Albany itself; the technicians who kept it running were housed in dormitory towns twenty miles away.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.
~ Peter Facinelli
It is generally held that for such infants the caregiver has served as a source of both fear and reassurance, and thus arousal of the attachment behavioral system produces strong conflicting motivations. Not surprisingly, a history of prolonged or repeated separation (Chisolm 1998), intense marital conflict (Owen and Cox 1997), and severe neglect or physical or sexual abuse (Carlson, Cicchetti, Barnett, and Braunwald 1989) is often associated with this pattern.
~ Unknown
Perhaps more relevant to us from an attachment standpoint are the classic studies of rat pups separated from their mother in the first two weeks of life, who appear to incur a permanent increase in the expression of genes controlling the secretion of CRF (corticotrophin-releasing factor)
~ Unknown
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration.
~ Peter Høeg
by expelling them
~ Unknown
It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.
~ Peter Heller