Quotes About Separations

#1. We are taught that these are dualisms: Jewish/Arab, public/private, visible/invisible, Black/white, privilege/oppression, pride/shame. But these are false separations that don't exist.

Daisy Hernandez

#2. Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

Duncan Hunter

#3. I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Cat Stevens

#4. I hate flossing, I wish I just had one long curvy tooth. They didn't have to make separations for me.

Mitch Hedberg

#5. Toward Florence he was specially drawn by the fact that Alfieri now lived there; but, as often happens after such separations, the reunion was a disappointment. Alfieri, indeed, warmly welcomed his friend; but he was engrossed in his dawning passion for the Countess of Albany, and

Edith Wharton

#6. So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.

Jamaica Kincaid

#7. Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Carlos Fuentes

#8. It was too heartbreaking to live with so many separations.

David Levithan

#9. When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

Sengcan

#10. My abiding theme is separations.

Judith Rossner

#11. I've lived through deaths in my family and I've lived through separations in my family so those are the big ones. Those are the ones that press the biggest buttons in human beings' lives.

Charlotte Rampling

#12. I have no desire to change things because I am the youngest in my family. I like meeting new people when I travel: these brief and inconsequential encounters have the thrill of beginnings and the sadness of separations.

Edouard Leve

#13. Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Simone De Beauvoir

#14. Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#16. There are no separations - only connections. There are no deaths - only transformations.

Debasish Mridha

#17. You'll always love the person, if you're sensible. But you get a lot of people, especially in divorces and separations, doing a lot of damage to themselves, because they can't figure out that they actually still love this person, but not in their original way.

David Whyte

#18. Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

Frederick Lenz

#19. People look forward to weekends for connections, revisions and separations even though many of these activities are accompanied by bruises and even a spot of blood, for excitement runs high on Friday or Saturday.

Toni Morrison

#20. She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves.

Debra Dean

#21. We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.

Esther Hicks

#22. Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

John Tillotson

#23. Life is a series of meetings and separations.

Santosh Kalwar

#24. My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.

Lily Yeh

#25. When there is nothing to catch
And nothing is catching you,
You are free;

From all your separations!

Sayantan Sen

#26. If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?

Celia Thaxter

#27. Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

Anais Nin

#28. In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

Will Self

#29. Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Tony Judt

#30. The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible.

Candace Pert

#31. Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?

Honeya

#32. Death is the perfect knowing.

Marjorie Holmes

#33. All knowledge resolves itself into probability ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.

David Hume

#34. There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Kevin McCarthy

#35. I've been collecting bugs since I was ten; it's the only way I can stop their whispers. Sticking a pin through the gut of an insect shuts it up pretty quick.

A.G. Howard

#36. Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.

G.K. Chesterton

#37. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Robert Emmet