490 Quotes About Separation

John Donne's 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning' concerns a sea voyage, and uses the image of a circle as an antidote to the abyss of loss and separation. He pictures the invisible but precious bonds which link carer and cared-for, lover and beloved in an attachment relationship as slender threads of gold.

Something or someone is always waving goodbye.

We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division.

influence flows across networks up to three degrees away. What your friends’ friends eat or do or think will influence what you eat or do or think—but further connections will not.

You want to see my eagerness flooding my eyes, (Moved) you wanted me to cry my heart out, and then, by the power of your presence again in my life, every granule of pain turns miraculously into a sparkling diamond of love.

Separation has nothing to do with distance...

I - am. You - will be. An abyss between us. I drink. You thirst. In vain we try to agree.Ten years between us, a hundred thousand Years between us. - God builds no bridges.Be! - that's my commandment! Let me pass So that my breath doesn't hinder your growth.I - am. You - will be. Some ten springs from now,You'll say : - I am! - and I will say : - once was...

There are two forms of friendship: meeting and separation. They are indissoluble. Both of them contain some good, and this good of friendship is unique, for when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. As both forms contain the same good thing, they are both equally good.