82 Quotes About Parting

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

I detest goodbyes. That is, with people I like.

But when we have offered love and reverence of our own accord, and not out of habit, when we have been disciples and friends with our innermost feelings, then it is a bitter and terrible moment when the realization is suddenly brought home to us that the guiding current of our life is bearing us away from those we love. Then the terrified heart flees anxiously back to the valleys of childhood virtues, and cannot believe that the rupture must take place, that another bond must be severed.

We have already said more goodbyes than are necessary. Those were goodbyes that brought about the end of partings. We taught each other that no parting is possible.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

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

I was able to cry when I realized that Sensei had already gone away somewhere, before I ever came to know him well.

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.

The seed of death sprouts within the desire for union.