Pain Of Separation Quotes

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bereavement, Grief Observed, Universal

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.

  Ye Xiaowen

  Pain, Buddhism, Eight

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• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Pain, Bereavement

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

  Rumi

  Pain, Heart, Splits

  "Rumi And His Sufi Path Of Love". Book by Faith Citlak, 2007.

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• For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

  Mary Schmich

  Pain, Medicine, Chicago

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• Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Daughter, Song

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