Quotes about parting
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“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Intelligence, Personality

“There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

Life, Truth, Personality

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me want to dream.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Variant: I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Source: Van Gogh's Starry Night Notebook

Dreams, Star

“See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.”

Lauryn Hill (1975) American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actress

People, Reality

“But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Depressing

“There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Evil

“Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

Love

“Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried:
The Angel do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Death, Angels

“Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Fools, Time

“I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Loss

“What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

Life, Family, Cheating, Forgetting

“We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.”

Carlo Rovelli book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

World, Suffering, Help, Joy

“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life, Music

“We make families of our own, Travis whispered in my arms on the last night we spent together. It starts with you and me and then it spreads. And whatever happens, there’ll always be a part of me that’s part of you. No matter what.”

Steve Kluger book Almost Like Being in Love

Source: Almost Like Being in Love

Family, Night

“It's like in the Bible. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it."
"What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back”

Celeste Ng book Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Source: Everything I Never Told You

Understanding

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

People, World, Thinking, Sense

“Should I pull on a shirt?" he asked with hint of amusement. I WILL NOT BLUSH. "No." He'd be doing the world a favor if he never wore a shirt again, but I wasn't going to tell him that part. "You're fine.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

World

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Variant: When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Source: The Fiery Cross

Love, Time

“What's up?" I asked.

You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."

It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."

What the hell kind of therapy are you in?”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Hell

“One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding

Love, Life, Passion

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?… Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Thinking, Hurt

“This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Kin

Guy

“I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being”

LeVar Burton (1957) actor, director

Thinking, Reading

“Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”

Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) American writer and poet

Thinking

“The sensation of falling was the worst part.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

God, People, Music, Jerk

“She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

Death, Memory

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”

Jenny Han book Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Love, People, Hurt

“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.”

Samuel Butler book The Way of All Flesh

Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 24

People

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”

Alexander Pope An Essay on Man

Source: An Essay on Man

“My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd)”

Iris Johansen (1938) Novelist

“Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Death, Effort

“Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen”

Jonathan Carroll book A Child Across the Sky

Source: A Child Across the Sky

Time

“His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?"
"If you like."
"Oh," he said, "I like.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Black Dawn

Smile, Kiss

“I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

God, Faith, Question, Time

“A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Lie, Hope, Nature, Silence

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Sadness, Personality

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Katharine Weber (1955) American novelist

Source: The Music Lesson

Life, Loss

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Books, Feeling, Literature

“Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Death, Thinking

“God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

God, Understanding, Thinking

“Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.”

Franklin Foer (1974) American journalist

Source: How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Religion, Communication

“The rejection didn't faze him. "Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Variant: Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something.
Source: Lover Eternal

“Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there was some of the sorrow of parting, but in everything parting there was some of the joy of meeting as well.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Life, Joy, Goodbye

“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

Time, Clothes, Night

“Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don'tso," Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

Guy

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”

Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Learning, Chance

“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Past, Future

“But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Love

“Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.”

James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy

Source: The Celestine Prophecy

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Life, Pain, Heart

“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

Water

“There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ink and Bone

Wisdom, Knowledge, Learning

“You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

People

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

Richard Ford book Canada

Source: Canada

Life, Happiness

“Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing”

Lois Lowry Messenger

Source: Messenger

Kiss

“People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Life, People

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian

Cells (1988), pg. 23, Popular's Young Discoverer Series, Discovery Channel https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mrTYvoaUlTAC&pg=PA23

Life

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923) <br class="br">General sources

Way, Mood, Change, Heart

“I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

Perfection

“I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Time, Past, Future

“And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction.”

Daniel Defoe La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoe

Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 6, Ill and Conscience-stricken.

Sense, Affliction, Reading

“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

People

“Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

World, Chance

“That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Heart

“Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Training

“Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.”

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

Travel, Heart

“Should God create another Eve, and I
Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from my heart; no no, I feel
The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh,
Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

God, Art, Feeling, Nature

“If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, Way, Understanding, Loss

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

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Source: The Christmas Sweater

“Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist

Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Pleasure

“Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..”

Dan Brown (1964) American author

Pain, Learning

“We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

2000s
Source: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Context: Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnace within high-mass stars. We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.

Universe

“A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and-no matter how much we despised ourselves for it-unable quite to let each other go.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

World, Fear

“Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.”

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

“Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.”

Stephen King book Just After Sunset

Source: Just After Sunset

“I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

“Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories

Justice, Appearance

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Life, Forgetting

“We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.”

Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Perfection

“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Sad, Heartbreaking

“raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

Coffee

“What the hell are you? (Desiderius)
I'm her godfather, with a heavy emphasis on the god part. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

God, Hell

“Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Life, Music, Heart

“They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Love, Life, Lie, Lovers

“Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.”

Simon Doonan (1952) British businessman

Source: Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You

Life, People

“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Variant: The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant.
Source: Oblivion

“That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Love, Feeling, Soul, Time

“My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it…
- They know nothing.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Science