Parting Quotes - Page 3

• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Redneck, Class, America

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• Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Challenges, Thrill, World

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Alan Romanoff (1965). “Poets of the world: Nathaniel Willis”

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• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Happiness, Being Happy

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.28, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• 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

  Moon, Sky, Earth

  Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

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• I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

  Max Muller

  Beautiful, Death, Pain

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• 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

  Love, Farewell, Half

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• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Guests, Tongue

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Soul And Body, Long

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• 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

  Morning, Light, Long Ago

  Great Expectations ch. 59 (1862 ed.)

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• “I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Forlorn, Said

  "The Complete Novels of Jane Austen".

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• Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crush, Girl, Kissing

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• Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Heart, Reflection

  Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (1963). “The gift”

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• But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!" Chiron and Grover glanced nervously at the sky. The clouds didn't seem to be parting around us, as Grover had promised. They were rolling straight over our valley, sealing us in like a coffin lid. Er, Percy ...?" Grover said. "We don't use the c-word to describe the Lord of the Sky.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Clouds, Sky

  "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, May 1, 2008.

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• Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

  Alice Munro

  Peace, Kindness, Moments

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Jan 11, 2011

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• i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Eye, Kissing

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• 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

  Pain, Grief, Men

  Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

  Stephen King

  Forever, Knows

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.

  Dan Brown

  Children, Communication, Sea

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute

  Rumi

  Cutting, Agony, Skills

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• Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Ice, Veins

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• 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

  Mother, Years, Four

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• Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

  Anita Shreve

  Sweet, Memories, Kissing

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• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

  Jerome Lawrence

  Men, Snakes, Ideas

  "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.

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