Quotes about parting
C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves
Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part.
Emily Dickinson - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Russell T. Davies -
Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!Dalek: The Dalek strategem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene.The Doctor: Oh really? Why's that, then?Dalek: We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated. The Doctor: No.Dalek: Explain yourself.The Doctor: I said, "No."Dalek: What is the meaning of this negative?The Doctor: It means, "No."Dalek: But she will be destroyed!The Doctor: No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie
I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
Julia Crawford -
Oh has thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever Oh why art thou silent thou voice of my heart?
Lord Byron -
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Departure should be sudden.
Frederick Peterson -
The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.
William Shakespeare -
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
Maggie O'Farrell - Instructions for a Heatwave
She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
I have more care to staythan will to go.
Ursula K. Le Guin - Lavinia
Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.
Roger Zelazny - The Courts of Chaos
Good-bye and hello, as always.
Evgenij Vodolazkin - Laurus
They embraced in parting. There were tears in the merchant’s eyes:“I do not like parting.”“Life consists of partings,” said Arseny. “But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that.”“But I would (the merchant Vladislav blew his nose) gather up all the good people I’ve met and never let them go.”“I think then they would quickly become mean,” smiled Ambrogio. (p. 238)
Jeff Thomas -
There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.
Hannah Lillith Assadi - Sonora
New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.
Judith-Victoria Douglas - Ariel's Cottage
Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?"Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does.
Jane Austen - Persuasion
...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, w
George Eliot -
In every parting there is an image of death.
Tryon Edwards -
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Julie Kagawa - The Iron Knight
I wished I had told her what I was doing. I wished I had said more, argued more. Maybe then I wouldn't have this hollow ache in my chest whenever I thought of our parting words. Had she already moved on, forgotten me? In her position, what she said made sense, but the thought of her with someone else made me wish I had something to fight, to kill, just so I could forget.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King
Yes" Said Gandalf; "for it will be better to ride back three together than one alone. Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of out fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!
Kahlil Gibran -
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
To say goodbye is to die a little.
George Eliot -
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King
Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
Frank Herbert -
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
John Daniel Thieme - the ghost dancers
beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said "Every tale of a love can only be a tale of ghosts that linger in these spaces wecan never hold,"—as the wind gave echo
Maggie Stiefvater - Shiver
I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. "These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.
Kristin Cashore - Graceling
There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.
Sol Luckman - Beginner's Luke
Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.
Marty Rubin -
Something or someone is always waving goodbye.
Eugene Vodolazkin -
Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.” (Laurus, p. 30)
William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf - Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Death and parting are the same.
Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
Yoshida Kenkō - Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko
Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.
Stephen Schwartz -
I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.