Quotes About Distance

Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.

Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.

The Vienna Boys Choir decked out in top hats and evil clown make-up could be directly next to me pole-vaulting over giant rotating knives and I'd never know because I'm gazing into the distance deliberating some vaguely imperceptible angst.

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.

When I was 13 years old, that's when my team assigned me - and I wound up living, like, six hundred kilometers from my home to play basketball.

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

She seems to float in a life next to ours, with limited contact.

She'll have to cross the distance herself. Trust me on that, Brrr. I know about it. Either she'll choose to visit us when there is enough of her present to visit, or day by day she'll learn to survive without needing what you need and I need.

If you should see her,' said Glinda lightly, 'tell her I miss her still.

Maybe its not a person we fall in love with so much as a distance, a depth , which that particular person happens to embody.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes off on the hands.

England and Brittany were places one came back from. But America, the colonies, and the Antilles were lost in some unknown region on the other side of the world.

Mais, à mesure que se serrait davantage l'intimité de leur vie, un détachement se faisait qui la déliait de lui.

Ponekad mi se vaše re?i vra?aju u svest kao daleki odjek, kao zvuk zvona koji donosi vetar; i ?ini mi se da ste tu, kraj mene, kad u knjigama ?itam odlomke koji govore o ljubavi.

Embora ele estivesse separado dela, não a tinha abandonado, estava ali, e as paredes da casa pareciam guardar a sombra dele.

Pero la denigración de las personas a quienes amamos siempre nos aleja de ellas un poco. No hay que tocar a los ídolos; su dorado se nos queda en las manos.

It isn't so very far from the elevated as distance goes, but it's centuries away as the soul goes.

Everything was shadowy pantomime, as if seen at a vast distance through some intervening haze—although on the other hand the newcomer and all subsequent comers loomed large and close, as if both near and distant, according to some abnormal geometry.