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The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. -- Steve Buscemi
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. -- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow -- William Shakespeare
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love! -- John Dryden
In every parting there is an image of death. -- George Eliot
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn... -- Philip Larkin
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. -- Charles Dickens
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. -- Frank Herbert
Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. -- Emily Dickinson
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. -- George Eliot
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well. -- Joyce Grenfell
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. -- Tryon Edwards
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close. -- John Keats
I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that. -- Richard Farnsworth
I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth. -- Kelly Rowland
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
In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times. -- Jacqueline Rose
Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting sea, Men meet, and greet, and sever, Parting eternally. -- Edwin Arnold
I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair. -- Rachel Nichols
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form. -- Kit Williams
My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. -- Emily Dickinson
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully. -- Nan Aron
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. -- Anton Chekhov
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. -- John Suckling
A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? -- Edward George, Baron George
Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home. -- Pierre-Jean de Beranger
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes. -- Thomas Otway
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. -- William Shakespeare
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view. -- Edward George, Baron George
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon. -- Walter Raleigh
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships. -- Billy Corgan
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. -- Sarah Vowell
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There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in. -- Helen Hayes
There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that. -- Jessica Jackley
Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me. -- Tibor Fischer
The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it. -- Seamus Heaney
I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.' -- Raymond Burr
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was. -- Ben Vereen
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. -- Lady Gregory
Any parting could be forever, and we don't know. -- Stephen King
You should always be careful of what you say in parting. -- Richard Paul Evans
Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves. -- Moto Hagio
Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing. -- Karen Marie Moning
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day. -- William Falconer
Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money. -- Germaine Greer
Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back. -- Joan Didion
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. -- Stevie Smith
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits. -- Leo Tolstoy
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Alexander Pope
What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent. -- John Milton
I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised. -- John Constable
Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . . -- Richard Crashaw
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. -- Alice Munro
Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real. -- Josephine Lawrence
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. -- William Apess
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. -- Ben Jonson
The parting of a husband and wife is like the cleaving of a heart; one half will flutter here, one there. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students. -- J. Lynn
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. -- William Butler Yeats
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
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. -- Colley Cibber
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn? -- Kahlil Gibran
JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
a parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living ... -- Caroline Pafford Miller
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. -- Julian Jaynes
Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein. -- Charlotte Bronte
Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends. -- Julie Andrews Edwards
I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting. -- Robin McKinley
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. -- William Shakespeare
I can feel her next to me. This union. Of warmth. Of caring. Of the indescribable. As if there were no parting and never could be. -- Carew Papritz
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends. -- Alanis Morissette
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
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me -- Jon Bon Jovi
Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. -- William Shakespeare
My mom does not exist anymore, and I cannot see my mother in myself. To me, the word "mother" is the synonym for the words "parting" or "separation" or "farewell." -- Kim Hyesoon
This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30â??it doesn't sound so bad at that. -- Beatrice Sparks
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
Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted. -- Paul Thurrott
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
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. -- Jerome Lawrence
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. -- Thomas Gray
... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety. -- Freya Stark
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

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