Quotes About Separation

The half-moon westers low, my love, And the wind brings up the rain; And wide apart lie we, my love, And seas between the twain. I know not if it rains, my love, In the land where you do lie; And oh, so sound you sleep, my love, You know no more than I.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Aléjate, si puedes. Volverás con el hambre a flor de piel.

years.' She kissed him good bye on the station platform, a long and passionate kiss. Now she was a civilian it did not matter if anyone saw them.

The frontier has been rebuilt. It is now impassable. Our country is surrounded by barbed wire; we are completely cut off from the rest of the world

The city and the outback were separated by a distance greater than miles. Then,

Yet a cruel world too often injures my feelings, by wondering how a person, possessed of domestic attachments, can sacrifice them by absenting himself for years.

It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

A chasm separates that memory from this moment.

Prison," I'd heard Ghosh laughingly tell Adid, "is the best thing for a marriage. If you can't send your spouse, then go yourself. It works wonders.

His mother's soul has been dead for years and her body has now followed.

He wanted to break me, the me I'd made, the me I'd needed to make, my need, mine, my whole life since I could remember. I didn't want to hear him that night. When I was ready to change I'd change. When life opens up before you, when you don't really know death ... it's easy to promise yourself change. Keeping the lines hard, the parts of me separate, was what I knew, how I lived.

He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

science fiction begins not with Gernsback, Wells, Verne or Shelley, but rather with the Protestant Reformation, when science as we now understand the term began to separate itself from magic as the idiom for fantastic voyages, utopias, future speculation and technological extrapolation.

Iceland straddles a rip in the earth's mantle, and the two plates riven through the land are slowly pulling it apart, at the speed of fingernail growth. There

A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room

In order not to despair completely of the people with whom I lived, I had to separate the outward appearances of their lives from the reasons why they developed that way. Then I could bear everything without discouragement.

Ideally, the business and the personal should never mix, but with human beings there's always going to be some blurring of the lines.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation." ( Defy the Space That Separates , The Nation, October 7, 1996)

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

We broke up in '91, but we didn't fade out, we didn't burn ourselves out, we were on pause for 26 years. We stopped at the height, we were No. 1 and we just broke up.