Parting Quotes - Page 10

• Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Years, People, Giving

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• Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

  Joan Didion

  Hands, Shoulders, Salute

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• I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

  Albert Brooks

  Feet, Would Be, Survivor

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• I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.

  Norma Shearer

  Girl, Interesting, Sophisticated

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• Yet in a kingdom containing seven constituent parts, which is upheld like the triple staff ,of an ascetic , there is no ,single part more important ,than the others , by reason of the importance of the qualities of each for the others.

  Guru Nanak

  Important, Quality, Asceticism

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• I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Father, Writing, Mad

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• I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, School, College

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• Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.

  Vera Nazarian

  Powerful, Loss, Depth

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Perfect, Afar, Made

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

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• Though thou loved her as thyself,
  As a self of purer clay,
  Tho' her parting dims the day,
  Stealing grace from all alive,
  Heartily know,
  When half-gods go,
  The gods arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Self, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “An Emerson Calendar”

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Farewell

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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• The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

  William Falconer

  Sunset, Clouds, Lamps

  William Falconer, John Mitford (1836). “The Poetical Works of William Falconer”, p.59, London, W. Pickering

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• Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heart, Break

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till-'t is gone, and all is gray.

  Lord Byron

  Dolphins, Gone, Lasts

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

  James Montgomery

  Heaven, Dying, World

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.351

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• It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

  Richard Holbrooke

  Essentials, Action, Offensive

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• All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Insomnia, Matter, Consciousness

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.488, Vintage

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• I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

  John Constable

  Mind, Corn, Fields

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• some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

  Ben Gazzara

  Personality, Roles, Actors

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