These apart quotes will inspire you. Apart (of two or more people or things) separated by a distance; at a specified distance from each other in time or space.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging apart quotes, apart sayings, and apart proverbs.

Best Apart Quotes

1. “It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.” ~ Marcel Proust
2. “To me acting and singing are worlds apart.” ~ Emmylou Harris
3. “Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with ‘the world’; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.” ~ Nelson Goodman

4. “Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.” ~ Gottfried Leibniz

5. “I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).” ~ Jacques Derrida
6. “Griping isn’t the same as creating something. Rebelling isn’t rebuilding. Ridiculing isn’t replacing. We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
7. “We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.” ~ David Platt
8. “Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.” ~ Yehuda Berg

9. “Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.” ~ Emmeline Pankhurst

10. “When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody” ~ Charles Hamilton Aide
11. “For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.” ~ Michael Walzer
12. “I was a very religious child – I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good – I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.” ~ Yehuda Amichai

13. “Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.” ~ Josh James

14. “The fit of jeans can be worlds apart from brand to brand. If you can find the right fit, skinny jeans can be very flattering.” ~ Tim Gunn
15. “People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They’re very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.” ~ John Gutfreund
16. “I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.” ~ Eugene Ionesco

17. “I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace.” ~ Czeslaw Milosz

18. “It wouldn’t bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I’d thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.” ~ V. E. Schwab
19. “When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us – glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation – a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.” ~ Wayne Thiebaud
20. “My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.” ~ Richard Hawley

21. “In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” ~ Michael Jordan

22. “The difference between EAZY E the artist and Eric Wright the human being, was two separate worlds apart. Behind closed doors, Eazy-E was a real generous giver, A true philanthropist.In 1991, I remember when Eazy-E drove out to Fontana California to drop off $20,000 cash because my twin boys were having hernia problems & and slight medical issues because of being born premature. He stopped his meeting & drove to give me the cash for my twins operations.” ~ Kokane
23. “We’ve taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
24. “But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.” ~ Edith Wharton

25. “The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.” ~ Kathe Koja

26. “To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.” ~ J. I. Packer
27. “You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.” ~ Li Bai
28. “No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.” ~ J. Edwin Orr
29. “In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” ~ Guy Debord

30. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

31. “In South Pasadena, artists were around but invisible somehow. Even though it was just a fifteen-minute drive from Downtown LA, it felt worlds apart. That suburban American experience can both protect and stunt you. I couldn’t wait to move to New York to become the person I’ve always wanted to become.” ~ Porochista Khakpour
32. “In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.” ~ Dallas Willard
33. “Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.” ~ Guy Debord

34. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” ~ Bill Watterson

35. “Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There’s no brain damage in tennis – although sometimes I wonder.” ~ Bud Collins
36. “Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.” ~ Malcolm Gladwell
37. “Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.” ~ Richard J. Foster
38. “We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.” ~ Marcel Proust

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