100 Time Apart Quotes

Following is our list of time apart quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about when we spend time together.

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Famous Time Apart Quotes

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. — Ouida

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. — John Gray

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. — Charles M. Schulz

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together. — Rodney Dangerfield

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together — Colleen Hoover

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship. — Susan Polis Schutz

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. - Robert Morgan

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go. — Frank Ocean

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! — Denis Diderot

Absence -- that common cure of love. - Miguel de Cervantes

Absence -- that common cure of love. — Miguel de Cervantes

In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. — Harriet Lerner

Absence - that common cure of love. - Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love. — Lord Byron

Short Time Apart Quotes

  • out of sight,out of mind — Homer
  • I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm. — Lee Krasner
  • To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. — Domenico Cieri
  • Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. — Elizabeth Ashley
  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. — Ray Charles
  • Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again. — Damien Rice
  • Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. — William Shakespeare
  • Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. — Colley Cibber
  • On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus. — Martin Milner
  • True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller

Time Apart Image Quotes

Time apart quote One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do
One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.

Our Time Apart Quotes

We are all like fireworks. We climb, shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even if that time comes, let's not disappear like a firework, and continue to shine... forever. — Tite Kubo

Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption. — David Goggins

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. — Mark Pryor

Time apart quote Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine wh
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. — William Boyd

Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger. — James Ellroy

Time apart quote Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.
Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh

Unfortunately, we both lead incredibly hectic lives that force us to spend a majority of our time apart. I will always admire and respect Tiger. He and his beautiful family will always hold a special place in my heart. — Lindsey Vonn

Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned. — Andrzej Stasiuk

While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart. — Nicholas Sparks

Together Apart Quotes

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. — A. A. Milne

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. — Chinua Achebe

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

Time apart quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart. — Miriam Makeba

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks

Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations. — Allan Boesak

Time apart quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing. — Neale Donald Walsch

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. — Ken Mehlman

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart. — Empedocles

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength. — Chris Bradford

Time Away Quotes

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time. — Ronald Reagan

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. — Sarah Kay

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius

It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way. — Lierre Keith

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. — Chinua Achebe

Time apart quote Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.' — Jimmy Page

No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy. — Fred Korematsu

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time. — Chesty Puller

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return. — Subramanya Bharathi

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More Time Apart Quotes

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm

All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings. — Barack Obama

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? — Nicholas Sparks

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights. — Sayings

Six feet under the stars is a place that doesn't exist. It's a place in your mind where everything and anything is possible. It's a place with no rules or limitations. It's a place where only two people can be at a time where no one can judge them and no one could try to break them apart. — Alex Gaskarth

Syria is another multi-faith, multi-tribal state that fell apart at the first time of asking. — Tim Marshall

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. — Suzanne Collins

Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys… and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure. — Cesc Fabregas

As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that! — Bill Courtney

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart. — Bonnie Tyler

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart. — Gloria Grahame

We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. — John Lennon

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out. — John Lennon

But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over — Paul Reiser

A ghost would crawl up my leg and have sex with me at an apartment a long time ago in Texas. I used to think it was my boyfriend, and one day I woke up and it wasn't. I was freaked out about it, but then I was, like, 'Well, you know what? He's never hurt me and he just gave me some amazing sex, so I have no problem. — Anna Nicole Smith

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work. — Lee Iacocca

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. — Wallis Simpson

A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren

I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect. — Freddie Mercury

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emile M. Cioran

We confide in each other and we really spend time together like a family. And since I'm the maknae, my unnies take care of me even more. I don't think we will be broken apart very easily. — Seohyun

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a single expression. If many photographs of a person were taken at different times, perhaps even years apart, their composite would possess that in which a single photograph is deficient. — Francis Galton

The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on. — Robert James Waller

Trust in God's timing. It's better to have to wait a while and have things fall into place then to rush into something and have things fall apart. — Adam Cappa

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. — Robert Breault

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith. — Pico Iyer

As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart. — Piri Thomas

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in. — Maureen Dowd

New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time. — Madonna Ciccone

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up. — Chloe Moretz

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. — George Thorogood

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime. — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy. — Michele Bachmann

I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it. — Demetri Martin

Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note. — Julia Glass

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me. — Lady Gaga

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