Quotes About Distance

A la memoria de mi padre, que nunca quiso tenerme tan lejos.

the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to come.

Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Cu cât se îndep?rteaz? de Dumnezeu, cu atât oamenii avanseaz? în cunoaÅŸterea religiilor.

Cu cât cunoÈ™ti un om mai bine È™i mai mult, cu atât eÈ™ti mai aproape de o fatal? desp?rÈ›ire de el.

În iubire ne gust?m, ne savur?m pe noi înÅŸine, ne încânt?m cu volupt??ile tremurului nostru erotic. Din acest motiv, iubirea este cu atât mai intens? ÅŸi mai pofund? cu cât distanÅ£a de persoana iubit? este mai mare.

Sueño a veces con un amor lejano y vaporoso como la esquizofrenia de un perfume..

Though we ourselves have come too late, we shall be envied by our immediate successors, and still more by our remote descendants. In their eyes we shall have the look of privileged characters, and rightly so, for everyone wants to be as far as possible from the future.

Distance between us. That's what I need. Otherwise, the whole last year of avoiding Declan—of forcing myself to let him go—was pointless.

Seen from a distance, Raoul Nathan was a very fine meteor. Fashion accepted his ways and his appearance. His borrowed republicanism gave him, for the time being, that Jansenist harshness assumed by the defenders of the popular cause, while they inwardly scoff at it--a quality not without charm in the eyes of women.

The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

Listen kiddo, by the time you grow up you'll have collected a whole lot of this 'dirt of life' stuff, right, you won't know where it's coming from but it'll pile up, and clothes and pearls won't look as beautiful to you as they do now -- that's for sure. The problem is that dirt, see? You can't ever settle down in one place, you've got to live like you're always, always staring way off into the distance.

Sucede que el corazón acaba velando en la distancia la belleza de las cosas ya vistas, desde las más intensamente vividas a las más pálidas; todo quedaba completamente envuelto en el corazón y ahora se sumergía en el paisaje que avanzaba hacia nosotros moviéndose velozmente

Maybe I was afraid of seeing anything as absolute. I wanted to keep moving, like a stream, and I wanted to go on watching everything from a distance. That's how I was. I felt close to people, but I didn't have any friends I could really share my life with, our hearts melting together. Something always failed to communicate.

Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und völlig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da draußen doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg die Vergangenheit ist. Weiter als der Tod, ja weiter sogar als die unüberbrückbare Distanz, die zwischen zwei Menschen besteht.

Nelle città senza mare, chissà a cosa si rivolge la gente per ritrovare il proprio equilibrio? Forse alla luna. Però se la si confronta con il mare, risulta talmente lontana e piccola, da sembrare, in un certo qual modo, indifesa.

D'un tratto capii quanto fosse lontano il passato. Anche più della morte, anche più della distanza incolmabile tra persona e persona.

Sì, pensai, forse come nella canzone, questo autunno non tornerà mai più, per l'eternità, e questa notte, passando attraverso i rami secchi e nudi degli alberi, si allontanerà scomparendo nella distanza. E poi di nuovo, sconosciuto e implacabile, verrà l'inverno.

Flowers and light, hope and excitement all suddenly seemed like things that were very distant from me, and I was trapped inside a deep, putrid, and bloody darkness.

Me basta con saber que la persona a la que quiero se encuentra en la misma coordenada que yo,que sus mañanas y sus noches coinciden con las mías, para que las tardes me parezcan más dulces cada día.

But I'm not free, I realized; I've been touched by Yuichi's soul. How much easier it would be to stay away forever.