Seperation Quotes

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.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

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

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

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.

~ Kahlil Gibran

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

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

~ Tennessee Williams

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: Oh My God Oh My God.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

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

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

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

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

I feel angry but not homocidal, this may be unlooked-for progress.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

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

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

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

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~ Suzanne Finnamore

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

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. People should be informed, as adopting a cat and becoming married take about the same amount of time and money and yet have such drastically different results. Indeed, except for the similar price($28)and the average time spent together, all similarity between pet adoption and marriage ends nastily.

~ Suzanne Finnamore