Separation

Famous quotes containing the word separation:

“Reunion after long separation is even better than one’s wedding night.”
—Chinese proverb.

“In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“I was the one who was working to destroy the one thing to which I was committed, that is, my relationship with Gilberte; I was doing so by creating, little by little and through the prolonged separation from my friend, not her indifference, but my own. It was toward a long and cruel suicide of the self within myself which loved Gilberte that I continuously set myself ...”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)