45 Separation Quotes To Reflect On

Separation is an intrinsic aspect of life that everyone experiences in various forms, whether it’s saying goodbye to a loved one, moving away from a cherished place, or ending a significant chapter. The emotional journey of separation can be challenging, yet it often offers profound opportunities for reflection and growth. In moments of transition, words have the power to heal, inspire, and provide solace. This curated collection of 45 separation quotes serves as a gentle reminder that, although separation can bring pain, it often opens the door to new beginnings and deeper understanding. Dive into these quotes and let them offer you comfort, perspective, and a renewed sense of hope.

1. “The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.” - Elizabeth Flock

2. “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.” - Tennessee Williams

3. “Even when I cried,” she said, a world of resignation in her tone, “I was glad to be here with you, Westhaven. Believe that, if you believe nothing else of me.”What she had meant was: Even when I cried because I must leave you, I was glad to be here with you… Believe that if you believe nothing else of me when I find the courage to finally go.” - Grace Burrowes

4. “As separações são o que mais custa, Tim! É muito difícil aceitá-las, principalmente quando gostávamos dessa pessoa. A separação significa que depois disso nunca mais somos os mesmos, que perdemos qualquer coisa, uma parte de nós mesmo que nunca mais reencontramos nem pode ser substituída. Mas temos de passar por muitas separações, Tim, porque fazem parte da vida, tal e qual como conhecer pessoas novas.” - Colleen McCullough

5. “In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.” - Suzanne Finnamore

6. “The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.” - Suzanne Finnamore

7. “A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.” - Suzanne Finnamore

8. “Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.” - Suzanne Finnamore

9. “I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.” - Suzanne Finnamore

10. “My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.” - Suzanne Finnamore

11. “I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.” - Suzanne Finnamore

12. “Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.” - Suzanne Finnamore

13. “Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.” - Suzanne Finnamore

14. “Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.” - Suzanne Finnamore

15. “The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.” - Suzanne Finnamore

16. “Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.” - Suzanne Finnamore

17. “I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.” - Suzanne Finnamore

18. “It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.” - Suzanne Finnamore

19. “Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.” - Suzanne Finnamore

20. “This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.” - Suzanne Finnamore

21. “I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?" I would like to do a straight exchange. But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this.” - Suzanne Finnamore

22. “Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.” - Suzanne Finnamore

23. “People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, I´d insisted on communication. Now I see his point acutely. I would love to have him back to not communicate with me. I would never ask for communication again, I would simply go elsewhere for the deep fish. Also, I´m not at all sure I want to hear what he has to say in this new vista. This works out well.” - Suzanne Finnamore

24. “The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.” - Suzanne Finnamore

25. “I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace.” - Suzanne Finnamore

26. “I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.” - Suzanne Finnamore

27. “They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.” - Suzanne Finnamore

28. “This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.” - Suzanne Finnamore

29. “It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.” - Suzanne Finnamore

30. “It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....” - Suzanne Finnamore

31. “Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and go back online. He would shut down the computer screen when I walked in. In the past, he used to take the laptop to bed with him and we would both be on our laptops, hips touching. He stopped doing that, slipping off to his office instead and closing the door even when A was asleep. He started closing doors behind him. I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.” - Suzanne Finnamore

32. “I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.” - Suzanne Finnamore

33. “I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.” - Suzanne Finnamore

34. “I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.” - Suzanne Finnamore

35. “I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.” - Suzanne Finnamore

36. “He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.” - Suzanne Finnamore

37. “Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy Couple With Stroller. Innocent Teenage Girl With Her Whole Life Ahead Of Her. Content Grandmother And Grandfather Visiting Town Where Their Grandchildren Live With Intact Parents. Secure Housewife With Big Diamond. Undamaged Group Of Young Men On Skateboards. Good Man With Baby In BabyBjörn Who Loves His Wife. Dogs Who Never Have To Worry. Young Kids Kissing Publicly. Then every so often I see one like me, one of the shambling gaunt women without makeup, looking older than she is: Divorcing Woman Wondering How The Fuck This Happened.” - Suzanne Finnamore

38. “When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.” - Khalil Gibran

39. “Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other?” - Linda Crew

40. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” - Rumi

41. “Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

42. “Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.” - Shannon L. Alder

43. “Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?” - J.C. Reed

44. “God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.” - Shannon L. Alder

45. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” - Shannon L. Alder