“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“Life and death, union and separation, follow hard upon one another. Nothing is steadfast but the will, nothing endures but one's achieve­ments. These alone count in life.”

Yoshida Shoin (1830–1859) Japanese politician

“Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Mandarins

“Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

“Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says “Bad war, good soldier.” Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.”

Max Cleland (1942) American politician

“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.”

Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician

“The thing that separates life from non-life is information.”

Paul Davies (1946) British physicist