Quotes About Distance

Beneath the palm trees Lora waited, watching the sea. Clyde's boat was already visible as a tiny notch on the far horizon

I nearly resent these things I have described, because they are life without you. [It] is so long. If I could only see you.

We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

We couldn't even hear you, in the night.... No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one else will come any nearer than that. I know, Eleanor said tiredly. In the night, Mrs. Dudley said, and smiled outright. In the dark, she said..

Slack your rope, Hangsaman, O slack it for a while, I think I see my true love coming, Coming many a mile

perhaps Charles and money found each other no matter how far apart they were, or perhaps Charles was engaged in systematically digging up every inch of our land.

No one lives any nearer than the town. No one else will come any nearer than that.

home seemed so far away that perhaps it did not exist at all.

felt steamy and sticky and chilled through, and home seemed so far away that perhaps it did not exist at all.

The difference between 'I love you' and 'I'm in love with you' was a bridgeless chasm.

Friendship is an art of keeping distance while love is an art of intimacy...

me hallaba sumido en la contemplación de la encantadora lejanía, cuando a mi espalda resonó la pregunta: «El señor es médico, ¿verdad?», que al principio no creí fuera dirigida a mí: tan olvidado de mí mismo estaba.

But these events had touched her so little - like the echo of thunder from the mountains after a storm had passed over the countryside and was far away.

Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up experience, place a distance between itself and immediacy.

Time is the longest distance between two places.—TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, THE GLASS MENAGERIE (1944)

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.

I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive.

É completamente estúpido escrever cartas de amor, não pode ser transcrito através de uma simples carta, mas o que fazer quando este horrível oceano nos separa do homem que amamos?

Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, everything I did not possess. It was to him I owed pains and pleasures whose violence alone saved me from the deserts of boredom in which I found myself bogged down.

I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.

I'm not jealous of your feelings for people. But I am jealous of people's feelings for you. [...] When you're there, I know quite well our love is the truest; but from afar I find it a burden to see you trailing round in the other hearts.

Ça ne rapproche pas, le téléphone, ça confirme les distances.

The telephone- it is not a thing that brings people nearer: it underlines remoteness. You are not together as you are in a conversation, for you do not see one another. You are not alone as you are in front of a piece of paper that allows you to talk inwardly while you are addressing the other- to seek out and find the truth.