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Quotes About Distance

Por lo pronto, me puse a medir el tamaño de mi cariño y dio 685 kilómetros por la carretera. Es decir, de aquí a donde tú estás. Ahí se acabó. Y es que tu eres el principio y fin de todas las cosas.
~ Juan Rulfo
entiendo lo lejos que está el Cielo de nosotros; pero conozco cómo acortar las veredas.
~ Juan Rulfo
Sí. Y tal vez no regrese. Así comenzaron todos. Que voy a ir aquí, que voy a ir más allá. Hasta que se fueron alejando tanto, que mejor no volvieron.
~ Juan Rulfo
Allá me oirás mejor. Estaré más cerca de ti. Encontrarás más cercana la voz de mis recuerdos que la de mi muerte, si es que alguna vez la muerte ha tenido alguna voz».
~ Juan Rulfo
Hacía tantos años que no alzaba la cara, que me olvide del cielo. Y aunque lo hubiera hecho, ¿qué habría ganado? El cielo está tan alto, y mis ojos tan sin mirada, que vivía contenta con saber dónde quedaba la Tierra.
~ Juan Rulfo
Amy looked up at him. Their faces were very close. She remembered when those dark expressive eyes would make her quiver inside, when being this close would make her blush and stammer. Not anymore, though.
~ Jude Watson
It's funny how you can grow away from your friends, when just a few years ago they were the most important people in your life.
~ Judy Blume
Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him]...knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.
~ Judy Blume
Sometimes spending a lot of time together can end a romance faster than anything else
~ Judy Blume
Hoti rahengi mulakatein tumse Nigaaho se durr ho dil se nahi
~ Wajid Shaikh
Uske itna bhi qareeb na ho jaao Ke aachank se dono durr ho jaao
~ Wajid Shaikh
Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view of earth, but it has a certain distance about it, it is under control, you can see her head going on working behind it.
~ Wallace Stegner
The stars refuse to come closer the way they have other nights. He squints harder. They just shimmer and float farther away.
~ WALTER BARGEN
Si tu dolor no me duele, pues entonces estoy lejos, muy lejos de ti.
~ Walter Riso
Maquiavelo dice: "Los fantasmas asustan más de lejos que de cerca".
~ Walter Riso
Friendships across the world make near neighbours of far horizons.
~ Wang Bo
Watching wild landscapes I forget distance and come to the water's edge.
~ Wang Wei
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
~ Washington Irving
But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gulf, subject to tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious.
~ Washington Irving
I look at you Across those fires and the dark.
~ Weldon Kees
Two cures for love 1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter. 2. The easy way: Get to know him better.
~ Wendy Cope
If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.
~ Wendy Mass
let get too close.
~ Wendy Mass
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. —Mark Twain
~ Wendy Northcutt