Separate Quotes

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't anything left to be said
but I will spend my life
trying to put you into words.
You who is every goodness,
every optimism
and hope.
Your love is a better fate for me
than anything I could wish for.
If you are a part of me,
then you’re the best part.
And if you're separate from me,
then you are my destination.
But I’ve become a weary traveller,
so please,
let us never be apart.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Ignorance is a fine line that separates right and wrong.”
― Yash Thakur

“The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I have become a better person than I am now. Because I'm sure she'll come back someday. But if she does not come back, I'm still a better person for someone else.”
― Danni Ariseno

“Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.”
― Tana French, The Secret Place

“I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you , even until it burns my hand . And when the light has long since gone , I will be there in the darkness holding what remains , quite simply because I cannot let go.”
― Letters sent Joellah

“Can miles truly separate us from friends or lovers... If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?”
― Nitya Prakash

“He did not want Romance to collide with the Porphyrion, still less with Jacky, and people with fuller, happier lives are slow to understand this. To the Schlegels, as to the undergraduate, he was an interesting creature, of whom they wanted to see more. But they to him were denizens of Romance, who must keep to the corner he had assigned them, pictures that must not walk out of their frames.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“I note how stiff they are with each other, how carefully they keep separate, as magnets must keep a safe distance or be slammed together by their very nature.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“A loss means something was separated from you.”
― Meir Ezra

“Every SOUL someday has to be SEPARATED from the BODY like the LOVE and the LOVERS”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“At the highest level of consciousness, you no longer see yourself as separate, you become one with all things, for that is the truth of the Universe.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“Sin will separate you from God whether you are a believer or non-believer.”
― Ibrahim E. Sakkab

“The decision looked easy... individually we can live our best lives was....... the hardest.
It saved us”
― Ginny Toole

“Loneliness has a pathos all its own...”
― Joli Darling

“What is the First Rule of the Cosmos? Fogg, in his solitude, finds his mind tormented by this question. It adheres to his thinking like a mussel to rock and yet cannot be prised open. Last night, however, on hearing of the dying of Pierpoint, it began to yield a little to his probing. Thus, Fogg set this down as a probability that the First Rule of the Cosmos is the Separateness of All Things. As each planet and star is entire of itself and not joined to any other planet or star, so must every person upon earth remain separate and alone, even in death. Thus in impenetrable solitude did Pierpoint die. But whereas the planets are serene in their separateness, knowing any collision with one another likely to destroy them and return them to dust, Fogg remarks that he, along with very many of his race, finds his Separateness the most entirely sad fact of his existence and is every moment hopeful of colliding with someone who will obscure it from his mind. Yet what he now perceives is the folly of such a collision. Collision is fatal because it transgresses the First Rule. In collision, Fogg is split apart. In collision, be turns to jealous gas, to heartless dust...”
― Rose Tremain, Restoration

“We’re all ultimately incompatible. If I were to meet my exact clone, it would just be a matter of time before I and me would go our separate ways.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“Complex deployments often require multiple handoffs between teams, particularly in siloed organizations where database administrators, network administrators, systems administrators, infosec, testing/QA, and developers all work in separate teams.”
― Nicole Forsgren

“If you’re avoidant, you need to be able to maintain some distance, either emotional or physical, from your partner and preserve a large degree of separateness. In order to be happy in a relationship, we need to find a way to communicate our attachment needs clearly.”
― Amir Levine, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love

“Letting children “live their lives” isn’t about releasing them into the wild or abandoning them (though French school trips do feel a bit like that to me). It’s about acknowledging that children aren’t repositories for their parents’ ambitions or projects for their parents to perfect. They are separate and capable, with their own tastes, pleasures, and experiences of the world. They even have their own secrets.”
― Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“Hoping to see the earth meeting the sky, I’ve been to the horizon.
And discovered that they’re still separated by the same height.”
― J S Chahal

“Separate bedrooms? Never again!”
― Steven Magee

“When did I become
I and the body? When did the two of us
separate?”
― Aditi Nagrath

“In the past people would not get divorced due to the shame. They would stay together with secret lovers.”
― Steven Magee

“I would just separate if I was not happy and could not fix things in my relationship. The knowledge that I was secretly cheating on my home partner does not sit well with me.”
― Steven Magee

“I see the advantages to being newly single every day!”
― Steven Magee

“I had trained myself to be dependent on these things and now I needed to train myself to separate from them. It took years to get addicted and it would take years to get to get unaddicted.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose