Top 100 Quotes About Parting
#1. He had won. He could release her at any time. But her lips... those soft, sweet petals were parting tremulously at the touch of his tongue, and she was granting him entry to the warmth of her mouth. He thrust boldly inside, wanting but one taste of her. Only one.
Shelly Thacker
#2. Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally.
Edwin Arnold
#3. Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
Frank Herbert
#4. There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes
#5. In a perfect cinematic world we would've captured the bad guys in spectacular fashion with explosions, car chases, and a parting kiss. She would've been played by Ava Gardner, and I would've been played by Robert Taylor.
Craig Johnson
#6. Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#7. I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form.
Kit Williams
#8. Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
Ian McEwan
#9. Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.
John Suckling
#10. I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.
Siobhan Davis
#11. Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
Alice Munro
#12. There are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.
Freya Stark
#14. If Dracula can't see his reflection, how come his parting's always neat?
Karl Pilkington
#15. I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me ... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.'
Raymond Burr
#16. The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.
William Apess
#17. The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
Julian Jaynes
#18. Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.
Stephen King
#19. There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.
P.G. Wodehouse
#20. The Bluebeard's terrible parting gift had been to make desire rhyme with death and fear.
Cornelia Funke
#21. They had a deal before parting ways
He kept the good memories
She kept the bad memories
He loved her rest of his life
She hated him rest of her life
Subhasis Das
#23. I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be.
Carew Papritz
#24. The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled ...
Charlotte Mary Yonge
#25. I am, of course, a rogue. A rapscallion. A musician. I would bring her nothing but poverty, shame, and bruised shins from my flailing limbs. She is the better for our parting.
Sarah Dessen
#26. What it would be like to be separated from all these things he did not know, but the more he dwelled on it the more he understood that it was not so much fear of being separated that he felt as sadness at the idea of parting.
Anuk Arudpragasam
#27. The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Nagarjuna
#28. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.
Jill Ker Conway
#29. Presents are not "things" but a means for conveying someone's feelings. When viewed from this perspective, you don't need to feel guilty for parting with a gift. Just thank it for the joy it gave you when you first received it.
Marie Kondo
#30. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#31. Flurries of snow obscured the view through the windows, but they were halfhearted and ultimately inconsequential, like the parting shots of a defeated army. Angel
John Connolly
#32. My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
Billy Corgan
#33. He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
William Shakespeare
#34. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Sarah Vowell
#35. There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall ... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it ... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
Agnes Martin
#36. What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.
Fitz-Greene Halleck
#37. In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already no longer with us.
Gustave Flaubert
#38. 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
#39. Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.
Bob Dylan
#41. Each lift of his eyes, each parting of the thatched lip from the clean-shaven, must prelude the tenderness that kills the Monk and the Beast at a single blow.
E. M. Forster
#42. From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
John Milton
#43. One glance he gave, one little smile at parting - it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thought I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen.
Anne Bronte
#44. If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?
William Drummond
#45. I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.
Alice Walker
#46. Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.
Josephine Lawrence
#47. The Egyptians have always been deeply impressed by the fact of human mortality, and much of their religious belief and religious ritual is taken up with the rites of burial, and detailed doctrines as to the experience of the soul after parting from the body.
Anonymous
#48. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.
Jane Austen
#49. Knowing that the purpose of this promis is simply to make parting easier
-Aleph
Paulo Coelho
#50. Take care. It seems to me that people have only been saying that phrase on parting for the past few years or so. All of a sudden everyone started to say it, as if the whole country abruptly recognized that ours is a world which demands caution.
Lawrence Block
#51. When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)
Andrea Bouchaud
#52. Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.
Paul Thurrott
#53. The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
Joseph Addison
#54. Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were
behind you, like the winter that has just gone by.
For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter
that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#55. Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#56. Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive,
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Emily Dickinson
#58. 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
#59. The parting, like the white fruit of an apple discolouring instantly around the bite, had begun three days before when they had met aboard the Rakuyo.
Yukio Mishima
#60. A laboring woman, though, while she endured her labor, lay at the center of something truly radiant in four dimensions; every birth everywhere, all the vectors of human evolution and migration originating and terminating at the parting of her legs.
Michael Chabon
#61. I bought a brown-skinned glove puppet. He came with a little black briefcase and his hair was parted exactly down the middle. The precision of his parting made me uneasy; somehow it was too human at the exact same time as exposing his status as a nonhuman.
Helen Oyeyemi
#62. Meeting is more exciting than parting but parting is important if you want to stay alive in a certain way.
Charles Bukowski
#63. People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Anton Chekhov
#64. Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
William Butler Yeats
#65. Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.
Germaine Greer
#66. There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.
James Montgomery
#67. Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [ ... ] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like not to have a friend in the world?"
"It ain't no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn't looking," the older man said, barely parting his lips.
Flannery O'Connor
#68. Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window!
LaVyrle Spencer
#69. People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.
J. Lynn
#70. It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#71. Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book's full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What's that if it's not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
Clive Barker
#72. Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
Ben Vereen
#73. Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
Tibor Fischer
#74. I love you." She inhaled, her lips parting. "I know it's too soon, but I live in the now. I have to because there might not be a tomorrow and that makes this even more selfish of me. But fuck, just please say you'll stay with me.
Nashoda Rose
#75. Such a little thing really, a kiss ... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right.
Sarah Kay
#76. It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Lady Gregory
#77. For the first time ever, I'd managed a great parting line and a grand exit. And it still felt like crap.
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#78. When the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#79. There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes.
Thomas Otway
#80. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
#81. I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.
Jane Austen
#82. Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home ...
Richard Crashaw
#83. Jamie. God, I want you." His hands were already parting Jamie's thighs and stroking them impatiently. He wanted - needed - to put himself inside him, the urgency of that need threatening to swallow him up. "Okay,
Alessandra Hazard
#84. I didn't know exactly what the future held, but I knew we were a team. Parting would not break us.
Wendy Higgins
#85. Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
Joyce Grenfell
#86. The meanest thing to which we bid adieu, Loses its meanness in the parting hour.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#87. I stood like Adam in his lonely garden
On that first morning, shaken out of sleep,
Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves,
Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.
Mary Oliver
#88. Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,
Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart
Only to meet again more close.
John Keats
#89. His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#90. Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
Stevie Smith
#91. My legs are still eagerly parting like butter for a hot knife.
Julianna Keyes
#92. This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30 - it doesn't sound so bad at that.
Beatrice Sparks
#93. A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.
Megan McKenna
#94. Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.
Cassandra Clare
#95. In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.
Jacqueline Rose
#96. I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
Charles Dickens
#97. One Parting
Why did he write to her,
"I can't live without you"?
And why did she write to him,
"I can't live without you"?
For he went west, she went east,
And they both lived.
Carl Sandburg
#98. Lukas would tell them to be good to each other, that there were only so many of them left, and that all the books and all the stars in the universe were pointless with no one to read them, no one to peer through the parting clouds for them.
Hugh Howey
#99. The last thing I needed was a parting shot of Derek Bast's face -- God's best endorsement for birth control.
Jordan Dane
#100. There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
