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“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.”

Book:The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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“Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony of parting, they would almost certainly be happier ten years hence than marriage is at all likely to make them - even then, they would not part.”

Love Inspirational Happiness Couple Lovers Divorce Mature Parting

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.”

Life Past Time Change Imagination Fate Movement Future Travel Transformation Leaving Present Parting Departure Flux

Book:Beginner's Luke

Source: Beginner's Luke

“I don't want to part in any ill-humor. But can't you understand? I've grown used to seeing you, to having you with me all the time, and your action seems unfriendly, even unkind. You don't even offer an excuse for it. Why, I was planning to be together.”

Parting

Author:Kate Chopin

“Learn from others and learn with them. Wherever you are in the world, seize important lessons.”

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Book:The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

Source: The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of us - was the great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world.”

Death Parting Endings Proust In Search Of Lost Time Swann S Way

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“Wedding was quiet and small, home they shared was soulless, their food bland. Sarla and her husband felt like guests in that home rather than family. They wondered what had happened to their son.”

Immigration Parting

Author:Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“Do you ever feel like you’re only ever watching? I ask Declan. Never really participating. Never really doing. Just always watching.”

Aloneness Voyeurism

Book:Felix Ever After

Source: Felix Ever After

“... all humans are frightened of their own solitude. Yet only in solitude can man learn to know himself, learn to handle his own eternity of aloneness. And love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other." - The Mountain is Young”

Love Solitude Aloneness

Book:The Mountain is Young

Source: The Mountain is Young

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