Quotes About Separation

The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers. Two is all echo and counterpoise; two is the beginning of multiplicity, the way the universal oneness differentiates itself and breaks apart into strings and quarks and photons, all the separate and component pieces of life. Two is a symbol of becoming as opposed to pure being...

Love is the fear of separation

Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

There was no question that it was a necessary divorce, but that didn't make it less painful. You don't think it will hurt, leaving a marriage like that, do you? But it's the same misguided thinking that makes people ask, after your mother dies, how old she was. If she was ninety, the bereavement isn't supposed to be as crushing. But of course it is. Of course. There's no equation for loss.

One of the disappointing truths about divorce is that when you have children together, you are never free of the one you've tried so hard to leave. Never.

I can say infinite for you to stay, but sadly it only took one from you to break us away and us separate ways

People often try to distinguish between personal and professional life, but they end failing - Cord 8 : Are we Computers?

More often than not a young couple stays in the same relationship, but they walk in different directions.

To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.

Hak cihâna tol?dur kimseler Hakk'? bilmez / An? sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.

Pero me aguanto las ganas y no se lo digo, ni se lo diré por años que viva. Me lo guardo y me limito a pensarlo. Decírselo sería un regalo excesivo, aunque él no se enterara: estuvo alejado de mí durante demasiado tiempo, se atrevió a declararse muerto, dejó su cuerpo en una costa distante.

El amor no está a la vuelta de la esquina, pero sí un poco más allá; al cruzar al otro lado que siempre evitamos por costumbre. A veces acertamos y otras no. Incluso cuando acertamos y ponemos todo de nuestra parte, una relación es como un globo de helio sostenido solamente con dos dedos: uno de cada persona. Basta que uno se separe del otro para que el amor se pierda irremediablemente.

Quizás la vida sea eso, un continuo desprenderse de los que uno quiere hasta enfrentarse a la muerte propia.

people grow apart, and sometimes there's nothing anyone can do about it

I think about going away myself, living a whole different life, like I could exist on a different planet and this life wouldn't know about me, and I wouldn't know about it.

Rompre avec les choses réelles, écrit Chateaubriand, ce n'est rien. Mais rompre avec les souvenirs !… Le cœur se brise à la séparation des rêves. »

Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband was relief…[H]er current solitude was not just a respite, it was a time to contemplate her future options. Nina marveled that she had choices to consider.

Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.

And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

In practice, however, the boundary between data and processing can be hard to establish.

Belonging is for becoming . . . if for some reason it becomes stifling, then the person may have to take the risk of moving on, no matter how painful the separation may be. Community as such is never an end in itself. It is people and love and communion with God that are the goal. But, of course, a separation of this kind comes only after mature discernment and not just because being in community is painful or because there is a new leader we do not like!