romantic separation Quotes

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

But she's ditched Dean!

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.