separation quotes

  One separation breeds ten thousand regrets.

-Julia McWilliams Child
c.150  BC  'To My Wife 2', collected in  A Book of Chinese Verse (translated by N L Smith and R H Kotewall).

I was the last to consent to the separation, but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.

-George III
  Letter to  John  Adams, first US  Ambassador to England, 1  Jun.

She hears the ocean protesting against separation, but she hears the sea protesting against union. She follows therefore her physical destination when she protests against the two situations, both equally unnatural separation and union.

- Henry Grattan
Of Ireland. Quoted in Conor Cruise O'Brien Parnell and His Party (1957).

Everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet.

-John Guare
  Six Degrees of Separation.

Everything presses onwhilst thou art twisting that lock,see! It grows grey; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and everyabsence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make.

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram toJenny.Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.8.