Apartness Quotes

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

My abiding theme is separations.

You can love someone and not be able to live together.

Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.