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Quotes About Separation

Tikai p?c piln?gas izš?iršan?s rodas patiesa interese par visu, kas attiecas uz otru cilv?ku. Tas ir viens no m?las paradoksiem.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
They are many indeed that lie there, though until now we have not thought of it so. Hitherto we have just all remained there together, they in the graves, we in the trenches, divided only by a few handfuls of earth. They were but a little before us; daily we became less and they more, and often we have not known whether we already belonged to them or not.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Es dom?ju, ka esmu tevi pazaudÄ"jis," teicu, turÄ"dams vi?u cieÅ¡i apskautu. "Tu mani nekad nepazaudÄ"si," vi?a ?ukstÄ"ja zem Å¡au­r?s maskas. "Un zini, k?d?? ne? T?d??, ka tu mani nekad negribi paturÄ"t tik cieÅ¡i k? zemnieks savu tÄ«rumu. TurpretÄ« viside?l?kais vÄ«rs k??st garlaicÄ«gs.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Parting from my friend Albert Kropp was very hard. But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The anguish of solitude rises up in me. When Kat is taken away I will not have one friend left.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Šai mirkl? es aptv?ru, no k? baid?jos visvair?k: karš var?ja m?s izš?irt t?, ka m?s nekad vairs neatrastu viens otru p?c tam, kad tas b?tu iztrakojies, jo pat visliel?kaj? p?rdroš?b? nedr?kst?tu cer?t tik daudz personisk?s laimes p?c zemestr?ces, kas visu sagrautu.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I won't be seeing you again, he said. It's just as well. I've told you too much to want to see you again. I wasn't so sure of that. It seemed possible that he would want to see me later on for that very reason. I alone, he believed, possessed an unfalsified image of his life. But that could make him hate me; perhaps he would feel that I had taken his wife from him, this time irrevocably—if he really believed that his own memory deceived him and only mine remained clear.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
All else went west in the war, but comradeship we did believe in; now only to find that what death could not do, life is achieving; it is driving us asunder.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Bez ljubavi smo kao leš na odsustvu.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
There were parents sailing to rejoin their children, and children to rejoin their parents, and wives and fathers hoping to get back to their own families, as was the case with Mrs. Arthur Luck of Worcester, Massachusetts, traveling with her two sons, Kenneth Luck and Elbridge Luck, ages eight and nine, to rejoin her husband, a mining engineer who awaited them in England. Why in the midst of great events there always seems to be a family so misnamed is one of the imponderables of history.
~ Erik Larson
There is no place suitable to my kind of mentality
~ Erik Larson
You know my dislike for saying 'good-bye' and were prepared to find that I had skipped this morning. To say that i was sorry to leave you all is to put it only one half as strongly as I feel.
~ Erik Larson
It wasn't satisfying to be the one to leave. But it was a lot better than being the one who was left.
~ Erin McCarthy
The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it. This holds true for all creative people to a greater or lesser extent, but it is especially obvious with the artist. Existence
~ Ernest Becker
Exile from the Loved One; or, Farewell and Return.
~ Ernest Bramah
It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them
~ Ernest Gellner
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...
~ Ernest Hemingway
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He held her close and hard and inside himself he said goodbye and then goodbye and goodbye.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Then nothing worries you?" "Only being sent away from you. You're my religion. You're all I've got.
~ Ernest Hemingway