Quotes About Distance

He could not have loved Virginia Gamely more, and he wondered if what he assumed lay at such great distance were present in this very city -or even in Virginia herself, if the future were to be fair and imaginative enough to take refuge in a single soul.

And he was seldom out of sight of the new bridges, which had married beautiful womanly Brooklyn to her rich uncle, Manhattan; had put the city's hand out to the country; and were the end of the past because they spanned not only distance and deep water but dreams and time. The

I'm a critic. I write essays about works of art. It's like being a eunuch in the seraglio, but unrequited love is the sweetest, and I have the proper distance. I can compress the qualities of beauty I've been trained to see, store them up, and bring them out at will, rapid-fire, in the combinations I want.

Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.

I live now in a world of shadows that shape and distance color, a world where space makes a kind of terrible sense.

We observe few objects really closely. As we walk on the earth, we observe the external events at two or three arms' lengths. If we ride a horse or drive in an automobile, we are further separated from the immediate surround. We see and photograph scenery; our vast world is inadequately described as the landscape. The most intimate object perceived daily is usually the printed page. The small and commonplace are rarely explored.

There was still distance to travel, but I was on the way to drawing level with Mr. Deacon, as a fellow grown-up, himself no longer a figment of memory from childhood, but visible proof that life had existed in much the same way before I had begun to any serious extent to take part; and would, without doubt, continue to prevail long after he and I had ceased to participate.

Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?

They thought that they loved each other: — each thought so; but there was no love, no sympathy, no warmth. The very atmosphere was cold, — so cold that no fire could remove the chill.

A poor gentleman is further removed from marriage than any other man.

They had played at being friends, knowing but very little of each other. But now, during the last

Distance in time and place, but especially in time, will diminish friendship. It is a rule of nature that it should be so, and thus the friendships which a man most fosters are those which he can best enjoy.

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. I remember when I used to think that members of the Cabinet were almost gods, and now they seem to be no bigger than the shoeblacks, — only less picturesque.

Le persone sono lontane quando ci stanno accanto, figurarsi quando sono lontane davvero.

I didn't want her girlfriend to suffer. But I didn't feel particularly guilty, either. They seemed so far from love, I even thought (stupidly) that the girlfriend might be happy to have Lucy taken off her hands. They had become strangers. Maybe they always had been. And we were magic.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Did you say Ends of the Earth?!! I don't think I've enough gas for that!!

He was alone in an airless, partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off. There was not another human being within half a billion miles. And yet, in one very real sense, he was not alone. Before he could be safe, he must be lonelier still.

for there was no vessel—at least of Man's making—anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars.

Ten kilometers away, the lights of New York glowed on the skyline like a dawn frozen in the act of breaking.

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.

Though that, surely, could not be its ultimate goal, it was aimed squarely at the Greater Magellanic Cloud, and the lonely gulfs beyond the Milky Way.

it would be ready again to lift another companion toward the shining silence which it could never reach.