Parting Quotes

• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  

  George Eliot
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Agony

• 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
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

  

  Richard Le Gallienne
  • Promise
  • Vanishing
  • Departing

• All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Poor
  • Consciousness
  • Insomnia

• The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

  

  William Falconer
  • Clouds
  • Sunset
  • Western

• 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
  • Identity
  • Parting
  • Masons

• Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Arms
  • Host

• It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Action
  • Force
  • Essentials

• Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.

  

  Valentine de Saint-Point
  • Eternal
  • Nostalgia
  • Sentimentality

• I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • True

• Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Forever
  • Made
  • Farewell

• Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

  

  Joyce Grenfell
  • Life
  • Goes On
  • Parting

• 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
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Pain

• ... 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
  • Life
  • World
  • Reconcile

• If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Winning
  • Broken
  • Pleasure

• “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
  • Friends
  • Parting
  • Forlorn

• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Night
  • Sorrow

• 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
  • Speed
  • Rage

• Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Doors
  • Separation
  • Alterations

• I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Water
  • Feels
  • Cutting

• 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
  • Mind
  • Common
  • Foolish

• 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
  • People
  • Death
  • Living

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Death
  • Resurrection
  • Parting

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