Seperation Quotes

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. ~ Tennessee Williams

I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind ... So don't talk of our seperation again ... ~ Emily Bronte

Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy Couple With Stroller. Innocent Teenage Girl With Her Whole Life Ahead Of Her. Content Grandmother And Grandfather Visiting Town Where Their Grandchildren Live With Intact Parents. Secure Housewife With Big Diamond. Undamaged Group Of Young Men On Skateboards. Good Man With Baby In BabyBjörn Who Loves His Wife. Dogs Who Never Have To Worry. Young Kids Kissing Publicly. Then every so often I see one like me, one of the shambling gaunt women without makeup, looking older than she is: Divorcing Woman Wondering How The Fuck This Happened. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed. ~ Rick Yancey

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

I WANT TO CUT THROUGH THE SPACE THAT SEPERATES US. ~ Gayle Forman

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it - I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of materialist science is an unbeliever. Nowhere does a scientific justification exist either for belief or unbelief. Materialism has the advantage that it is not seeking the transcendental, the essence, the cause, the force behind phenomena nor that beyond matter. But when he misconstrues the distinction between force and matter, when he denies the existence of the whole problem, he merely slips around behind idealism. The materialist asserts the real indivisibility of matter and force and to explain their seperation, gives value solely to "an exterior reason, born of the need for systemisation of our consciousness. ~ Joseph Dietzgen

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion ... THEIR religion. ~ Phil Donahue

I vow that i will never forget this once in a life time love and to know it to be the deepest part of our soul and no matter how far the wave carry us apart we will always find our way to eachother. ~ Peter Adejimi

At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat. ~ Padma Lakshmi

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Enjoy the company of your loved ones while they are still alive. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Everyone can leave someone, but not everyone can leave someone with dignity! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

As a divorced man, I can say from experience that there may come a time when a couple decides it is best to live separate lives: where you have different dreams and are no longer willing to make sacrifices to achieve the other's goal. ~ Carlos Wallace

If love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love. ~ Robin Hobb

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities ... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast. ~ Marjane Satrapi

I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs. ~ Honeya

Separation isn't time or distance
it's the bridge between us
finer than silk thread sharper than swords ~ Nazim Hikmet

God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

1883 ... The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good. ~ The Catholic Church

I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other? ~ Linda Crew

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just remember, though you may have an ample set of well-wishers who would pray for you, there would always be an extra set of prayer called out for you in some part of the world. ~ Sapan Saxena

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake.
I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?"
I would like to do a straight exchange.
But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, I´d insisted on communication. Now I see his point acutely. I would love to have him back to not communicate with me. I would never ask for communication again, I would simply go elsewhere for the deep fish. Also, I´m not at all sure I want to hear what he has to say in this new vista. This works out well. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Home felt an entire world away. ~ Adrienne Young

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Even if we're not together, we'll never really be apart. ~ L.J.Smith

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing. ~ Suzanne Finnamore

There's a certain term - existential loneliness- which describes the loneliness that you can feel no matter how many people you are with, no matter how close you are to them or how much they love you; when you understand that you are completely alone in this world. ~ Tatiana Vedenska

Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown. ~ Patricia Robin Woodruff

Can it be that distance makes the heart feel fonder, and scatters roses where nettles really grow? ~ Violet Winspear

Elevation at times require separation. ~ Carlos Wallace

I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without
the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality,
and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future. ~ Peter Ackroyd