Such a little thing really, a kiss. . . most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken entirely for granted as a basic human right.
In every parting there is an image of death.
You should always be careful of what you say in parting.
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.
His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am. " What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.
I must have Haley Joel Osment as my agent, because he only sees dead parts
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
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.
. . . of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.
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.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.
JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.