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Quotes About Distance

I just can't imagine it. I can't imagine you on the other side of the world, at a pay phone on the street.
~ Elif Batuman
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.
~ Anthony Kiedis
IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN to Nearside you'll certainly know of the Overview Effect— there are whole towers, observation decks and hotels named after it. The Overview Effect is what happens when a human being surveys Earth from a sizable distance out in space. The Apollo astronauts were the first to feel the full force of it: that mind-blowing moment
~ Anthony O'Neill
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
~ Anton Yelchin
El llanto quizá sea el camino más cortopara el mar
~ Antonio Gala
En exilio vivimos de aquel reino, inmediato y distante, donde todo es claridad
~ Antonio Gala
Los caminitos blancos se cruzan y se alejan, buscando los dispersos caseríos del valle y de la sierra. Caminos de los campos... ¡Ay, ya no puedo caminar con ella!
~ Antonio Machado
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
~ Antonio Porchia
Near me nothing but distances.
~ Antonio Porchia
My "I" has gone farther and farther away from me. Today it is my farthest "you".
~ Antonio Porchia
È stato come se sotto i piedi mi si fosse aperta una voragine fatta di tempo e io vi sono sprofondato dentro e ti ho raggiunta, perché non ci si può opporre alla fotografia di un giornale spiegazzato macchiato d'insalata, ho dato una spolveratina al velo di terriccio che ricopriva i tuoi occhi e lì, dove tu sei, sono tornato anche io.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
A man who is nearer to the woman in love relationship is only in proportion farther from his wisdom.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who could actually FEEL as what the people really THINK to get from him/her would never like to have most of them around oneself.
~ Anuj Somany
A rich gets frienemies around oneself only,middle class guy obtains them at a short length of own networking circle and a poor finds often the same at a very long distance.
~ Anuj Somany
The first step of understanding about own wisdom is to keep oneself always at a safe distance from women.
~ Anuj Somany
The first step towards the wisdom is to keep always a safe distance from the woman & the next and the rest of the steps are to keep walking safely on the first one only.
~ Anuj Somany
The prize to a wise man from an invisible God is his regular seclusion & safe, long distance from woman; whereas the punishment to the wicked person from omnipresent Lord is a horde of people especially women around him often.
~ Anuj Somany
Two women despite being seen often together as friends are actually many mile distance away mentally from each other; Two men in friendship in spite of living many miles distance away from each other could still feel connected internally like brothers.
~ Anuj Somany
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
~ Aphra Behn
And then he reached toward me again, this time with both arms, as though he might wrap them around me to give me some comfort. But then he stopped, bit his lip, folded his arms, and strode away.
~ April Lindner
Maybe love just felt that way, like a kind of fever dream, making things seem both frighteningly close and unbearably far away all at once.
~ Ari Berk
For Silas, Lichport was only a name, like that of a distant cousin or a dead relative he'd never met. Familiar but abstract.
~ Ari Berk