Quotes About Separation

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

The days will have more hours while you are gone away.

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider, and dear ones fewer and fewer, every day that you stay away --

Home is so far from home.

So we must meet apart— You there—I—here With just the Door ajar That Oceans are—and Prayer— And that White Sustenance— Despair— — Emily Dickinson, from "I Cannot Live with You," The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little,Brown and Company, 1960)

Are nothing to the bee; His separation from his rose To him seems misery.

parting is all we need to know of hell

I could not die with you, For one must wait To shut the other's gaze down,— You could not.

If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I'd wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls. If only centuries delayed, I'd count them on my hand, Subtracting till my fingers dropped Into Van Diemen's land. If certain, when this life was out, That yours and mine should be, I'd toss it yonder like a rind, And taste eternity.

O inferno é a ausência das pessoas de quem temos saudade.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much.

Fog makes an island of every man.

Ahora sí que tú y yo estamos más lejos uno del otro que dos estrellas de diferentes galaxias.

us, by the way – "they are forever dead to their brothers and sisters." So there was no guarantee that that particular fairy was worth even

The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.

The indispensability of play-acting in the grim business of dying and killing is particularly evident in the case of armies. Their uniforms, flags, emblems, parades, music, and elaborate etiquette and ritual are designed to separate the soldier from his flesh-and-blood self and mask the overwhelming reality of life and death.

with attachment comes pain!

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They were more free, but they were more alone.

The awareness of human separation, without reunion by love—is the source of shame. It is at the same time the source of guilt and anxiety.

Si percibo en otra persona nada más que lo superficial, percibo principalmente las diferencias, lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el núcleo, percibo nuestra identidad, el hecho de nuestra hermandad.

failure promotes success only if you actually take the time to analyze your mistakes.." "Failure has to be separated from fault, and for many people that requires a bit of deprogramming, as we learn early on that they are one and the same." "In this framework, intention is extremely important.

the spread of capitalistic organization concentrated manufacturing on central premises–separating the home and workplace, with devastating consequences for female enterprise.