490 Quotes About Separation

Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.

The part of something is missing and the remaining part is itself not able to explain what part is missing.

I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?

We were destined to collide but the river of misunderstanding left us at the opposite banks.

Our deepest longings and the question of who we are intended to be cuts us in half, dividing us within ourselves. At critical stages and significant moments in the course of life, we sink with the weight of our own questions; we drown in our own psyche in order to reach a subtle ground that secretly sustains our every breath. In that sense, all separations, splits, and conflicts are evidence of a unity we long to find, both individually and collectively.

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

.......Love is such a biological feeling, which kills, without killing you biologically.

He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they'd drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed.

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.