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Quotes About Distance

Se detuvo, sospechando algo terrible, tomó entre sus manos un poco de mar. Y lo temido ocurrió. En el hueco de sus manos, el mar dejaba de ser azul, era sólo agua transparente. Acortar la distancia para destruir el encanto.
~ José Sbarra
At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
~ Jose Carreras
Hertugen av Edinburgh klaget en dag over at han aldri kunne få tak i en kopp med varm kaffe hos seg. I Buckingham Palace er avstanden mellom kjøkkenet og de private værelser så lang at kaffen blir kald på veien. Stakkarne må koke tevannet sitt på en kokeplate.
~ Jose Luis de Villalonga
O homem não deve odiar o que adorou, pode unicamente libertar-se, afastar-se, desprender-se disso.
~ Joseph Bédier
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
~ Joseph Conrad
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky....
~ Joseph Conrad
Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people.
~ Joseph Delaney
I shrugged, put my hands up, and turned around, my back to Taylor. Bondarchuk scuffed into an orthogonal position to my left, just far enough away that I couldn't jump him.
~ Joseph Finder
The truth was, Roger and I hadn't been close since Dad's trial. Maybe that was a euphemistic way of putting it. I didn't like the guy, and he didn't like me either. We barely tolerated each other.
~ Joseph Finder
love is the strongest emotion. we never feels the distance. even at large distances apart from each other, both lovers will feel the closeness always.
~ Joseph Mathew
My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.
~ Joseph O'Neill
After a couple of somehow frightening evenings over the course of which each of us was, there can be little doubt, impressed more and more powerfully by the mental illness of the other, we restricted our friendship to the stairs.
~ Joseph O'Neill
den. He knew there was nothing he could do to help Morning Whisker, and he wanted to stay out of the grieving family's way. After a moment he began
~ Erin Hunter
long, long way from home
~ Erin Hunter
The StarClan spirit went on watching as the two medicine cats trudged on up the moorland slope, their figures slowly dwindling into the distance until they crossed the crest of the hill and vanished.
~ Erin Hunter
The swim to the drowned monster seemed twice as far as it had on the way out.
~ Erin Hunter
If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from. Please pass the blue milk, Aunt Beru.
~ Ernest Cline
The sight suddenly drove home the fantastic isolation of the place.
~ Ernest Cline
Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars.
~ Ernest Cline
I'd finally gained enough distance from my addiction to realize something. Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people.
~ Ernest Cline
If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.
~ Ernest Cline
A river of words flowed between us.
~ Ernest Cline
Ileana: la Galaxia de Andrómeda, a 700 000 años luz, que se puede mirar a simple vista en una noche clara, está más cerca que tú. Otros ojos solitarios estarán mirándome desde Andrómeda, en la noche de ellos. Yo a ti no te veo. Ileana: la distancia es tiempo, y el tiempo vuela. A 200 millones de millas por hora el universo se está expandiendo hacia la Nada.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Ileana: la Galaxia de Andrómeda, a 700 000 años luz, que se puede mirar a simple vista en una noche clara, está más cerca que tú. Otros ojos solitarios estarán mirándome desde Andrómeda, en la noche de ellos. Yo a ti no te veo. Ileana: la distancia es tiempo, y el tiempo vuela. A 200 millones de millas por hora el universo se está expandiendo hacia la Nada. Y tú estás lejos de mí como a millones de años.
~ Ernesto Cardenal