Quotes about parting
page 13

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

Love, Women, Men, Understanding

“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Mountain

“And after a while… I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that… well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Life, People

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Religion

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”

B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar

Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 27

Light

“Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Silence

“As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.”

Stephen King book Desperation

Source: Desperation

God, Faith, Time

“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

People

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 1

Business, Holiday

“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems… wars, nations, destructions… to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

War, Dead

“So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Silence

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet

Beauty, Reality

“Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make
comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse
to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Thinking

“But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”

Louie Giglio (1958) American clergy

Life, Pain, Heart

“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

“When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

Perfection

“Look at your body—
A painted puppet, a poor toy
Of jointed parts ready to collapse,
A diseased and suffering thing
With a head full of false imaginings.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

Description: from the The Dhammapada
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)

Disease, Imagination, Suffering, Painting

“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Silence

“Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Home

“What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Happiness, Family

“In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others.”

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

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.”

Sarah Dessen book The Moon and More

Source: The Moon and More

“You're a part of me… You're in my heart. Forever and always, all right?

—D”

Jacqueline Woodson book After Tupac and D Foster

Source: After Tupac and D Foster

Heart

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

William Golding book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

Life, Understanding

“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.”

Thomas Malory book Le Morte d'Arthur

Source: Le Morte d'Arthur

Men, Dead

“I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart

“WARNING
If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Reading

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

John Steinbeck book Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

Understanding

“My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn’t transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy? ]”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Happiness, Bird

“All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Girl

“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Love

“I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.”

Lauren Myracle book Shine

Source: Shine

Love, World

“I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Way, Feeling, Thinking, Time

“For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Sleep

“Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“Could you please stop with the beating? (Kat)
He’s being punished. Hello? This is Tartarus, remember the purpose of this part of the Underworld? We’re not really warm and fluffy over here. (Hades)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“It's a full time job with a part-time companion.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Time

“I have heard sometimes that men who lose an arm of a leg still feel that pain in those limbs, though they are gone,' said Will. 'It is like that sometimes. I can feel Jem with me, though he is gone, and it is like I am missing a part of myself.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Men, Pain, Feeling

“Without a doubt… the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Rainshadow Road

Cars

“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Understanding, Problem

“You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Thinking

“No, I'll dream another dream," he said. "I've made up so many things, now I'll just go into one. I'll be part of it.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Dreams

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Thinking

“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it’s part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

Dreams, Music, Silence

“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Sadness

“Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence.”

Jan Morris (1926) British historian

Pleasure, Books, Lovers, Understanding

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Nature

“Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Siege of Macindaw

Life, Pain, Problem

“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”

Ed Brubaker (1966) comic book writer and cartoonist

“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'…”

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

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

Love, Life, Friendship, Music

“Science is, at least in part, informed worship.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

Science

“Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's the part of the risk. I don't want to be scared anymore.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love, Change

“It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever”

Rosamunde Pilcher book The Shell Seekers

Source: The Shell Seekers

Personality

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

Anita Desai (1937) Indian novelist

“Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?”

Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) American novelist and screenwriter

“I am a part of all I have read.”

John Kieran (1892–1981) American sportswriter

Reading

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”

Aphra Behn book Oroonoko

Source: Oroonoko

Life, World, Way, Soul

“There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Feeling, Silence

“These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Hope

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

Pauline Kael book Going Steady

Going Steady (1969), Trash, Art and the Movies (February 1969)

Pleasure, School, Art

“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Love, Personality

“It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."
She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Thinking, Hurtful

“You’re like part human, part rainbow.”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

The Circle

“Part 1- In search of Hot Chocolate-Chip Cookies”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“Apparently, he’d killed so many family members that he must have significantly affected the Lore’s population. Doing my part for the environment.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Family

“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

Soul, Passion

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Tear, Universe, Personality

“Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”

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

“I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Way, Kiss, Time

“It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Variant: I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
Source: Hannibal

Understanding, Learning

“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part… and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.”

Dave Eggers book What Is the What

Source: What Is the What

“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief… Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.”

Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)

Source: Golden Fool

Knowledge, Loss

“he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Life, Dreams

“My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Passion, Indifference

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”

Paul Theroux book The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

Travel

“A part of me died,” he says. “And it was the best part.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

If you care about something enough, it's going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Pain, World, Fear, Tear

“Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Thinking

“The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”

John Wyndham book The Chrysalids

Source: The Chrysalids

Life, Change

“There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Heart

“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

God, Justice

“The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.”

Isabel Allende book The Stories of Eva Luna

Source: The Stories of Eva Luna

Life, Heart, Personality

“What do you know?”
“Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes.”
“What do you want, then?”
“What I can’t have.” Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. “Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

“She had perfect features, with her eye, nose, lips, and ears the right size and in right places. That is all it takes to make people beautiful, normal body parts – yet why does nature mess it up so many times?”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

People, Beauty, Nature, Time

“And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

Source: Drums of Autumn

Hope, Soul

“I make a new discovery that totally blows; dying is the easy part. It's coming back to life that sucks.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Life

“Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the hell she was thinking”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hell, Thinking, Reality, Help

“The night is just a part of the day”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Night

“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”

Paul Bowles book The Sheltering Sky

Source: The Sheltering Sky

Soul

“Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

“Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

World

“I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”

Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Life, Time