Parting Quotes - Page 9

• Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Retirement, Loss, Solitude

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• 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

  Eye, Waiting, Behinds

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Lady of Quality”, p.196, Booklassic

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• ... 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

  World, Littles, Reconcile

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• when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Home, Sadness, Loss

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• When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Past, Parent, Realization

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

  Dervla Murphy

  Home, Loss, Occupation

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• It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Morning, Prayer

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• A few more years shall roll,
  A few more seasons come;
  And we shall be with those that rest,
  Asleep within the tomb.
  A few more storms shall beat
  On this wild rocky shore;
  And we shall be where tempests cease,
  And surges swell no more.
  A few more struggles here,
  A few more partings o'er,
  A few more toils, a few more tears,
  And we shall weep no more.
  Then, O my Lord, prepare
  My soul for that blest day;
  Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood,
  And take my sins away.

  Horatius Bonar

  Struggle, Blood, Years

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• My own lov'd light,
  That very soft and solemn spirit worships,
  That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine,
  Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power,
  Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair;
  The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy
  Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest
  The path of meeting or of parting love--
  Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts
  Thou smil'st in throned beauty!

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• I went to the store to buy a race car for my son's birthday, and the next thing I know I was working part time for the holidays. Then in February 2002, I started working on a plan to purchase the store.

  Bob Rice

  Holiday, Son, Race

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• The variation between countries is partly due to cultural and institutional differences, but undoubtedly the economic landscape within each territory is crucial.

  Lorna Byrne

  Country, Differences, Variation

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• 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

  Two, People, Goes On

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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

  Josephine Lawrence

  Real, Separation, Absence

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• I once knew it. 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

  Sleep, Careers, Identity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, England

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.548

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• It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.

  George Sarton

  Ideas, Common Sense, Giving

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• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  Chase Twichell

  Beautiful, Pain, Drama

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• 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

  Brother, Grief, Loss

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics

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• My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be
  found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the
  enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Grief, Sadness

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• Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Karma, Men, Race

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Dark, Sunshine

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.607

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• I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.

  Dayna Devon

  Jobs, Years, People

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• There's a disciplined erotic component to it, so that the height of sexual contact is the embrace, the modest touch, a relatively chaste kiss. An important passage from the surviving 1942 diary (one I quote in the book) relates this mode of sexual expression to his own life. Mann had returned to his diary for 1927 (one of those he burned) and to his parting from the young man, Klaus Heuser, whom the family had met on holiday and invited to Munich.

  Philip Kitcher

  Book, Holiday, Kissing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When asked, "What do you think love is?" a lot of people speak of things that are painful or lingering. I wanted to talk about various sides to love. Things such as the excitement, happiness, parting, pain, regret regarding love.

  Seungri

  Pain, Regret, Love Is

  "Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Jessica Kim, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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