Death Parting Quotes

#1. In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

#2. The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

William Apess

#3. If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

Peter Higgs

#4. The Bluebeard's terrible parting gift had been to make desire rhyme with death and fear.

Cornelia Funke

#5. And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.

Ivo Andric

#6. Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Josephine Lawrence

#7. Maybe I'm like the vehicle," Eve decided. "Keep it ordinary on the outside, so nobody notices all the hardware inside.

J.D. Robb

#8. The world stage is very difficult. It's not easy to be on the world stage.

Mohammed Morsi

#9. Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Stevie Smith

#10. the assistant principal told me how he "loved to read a great novel and discuss the meaning of life." He smiled, sighed wistfully, and then turned suddenly serious. "But we can't do that at our school. We have to focus on basic skills and classroom management.

John Owens

#11. The singer was lifted up and illuminated with gratitude, not for any one thing, but for the whole of his life, even for the agony. Even in Latin you could tell he was thanking God for the agony in particular, for the way it allowed him to cleave so tightly to the world.

Miranda July

#12. Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

Banana Yoshimoto

#13. You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

David Bowie

#14. Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

#15. Your body is only the garage for your soul.

Wayne Dyer

#16. 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.

Yoshida Kenko

#17. Maybe I'm turning into a pussy in my old age. The kicker? I don't give a shit.

Kristen Proby

#18. Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.

Margaux Bergen

#19. Victoria made a violent sound of protest. "I am not repressed!"
Seht pinched her nipple and watched her resulting shiver. "You have never been spanked or ass-f**ked. I would say that's pretty damned repressed." "Bastard!

Morgan Hawke

#20. A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living ...

Caroline Pafford Miller

#21. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...

Muse

#23. Death and parting are the same.

Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

#24. A goodbye at the gate," said Hobie. He seemed to be talking partly to himself. "That's what he would have wanted. The parting glimpse, the death haiku - he wouldn't have liked to leave without stopping to speak to someone along the way. 'A teahouse amid the cherry blossoms on the way to death.

Donna Tartt

#25. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#26. Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Tryon Edwards

#27. Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

John Dryden

#28. Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#29. It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

Joshua Prager

#30. The Sleep lasted six hours. For most of that time John lay beside Miriam watching the shadows.

Whitley Strieber

#31. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of resurrection. - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, German philosopher

Bernd Heinrich

#32. There is no economic imperative that will condemn us to deplete our vital resource base, but neither is there an invisible hand that will prevent us from doing so.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#33. Love can take you from any depth and place you on the highest mountain.

Bryant McGill

#34. Everyone owes nature a death.

Sigmund Freud

#35. I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead.

Charles Dickens