Quotes about Separation

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

We are about to part, said Neville. Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154

And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

He dragged her under him and made love to her with the steadiness and the intensity of a man about to leave for Dayton.