Quotes About Distance

He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn't understand because no one on Earth had ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace

Lo spazio è vasto. Veramente vasto. Non riuscireste mai a credere quanto enormemente incredibilmente spaventosamente vasto esso sia. Voglio dire, magari voi pensate che andare fino alla vostra farmacia sia un bel tratto di strada, ma quel tratto di strada è una bazzecola in confronto allo spazio.

Ä°nsan Evrende ne kadar daha h?zl? ve ne kadar uzaÄŸa giderse Evrendeki yeri de o kadar önemsiz görünüyor.

Way off in some indistinguishable distance—was it a mile or a million or a mote in his eye?—was a stunning peak that overarched the sky, climbed and climbed and spread out in flowering aigrettes,1 agglomerates,2 and archimandrites.

The ship had come sweeping in over a dark and somber landscape, a terrain so desperately far removed from the heat and light of its parent sun, Sol, that it seemed like a map of the psychological scars of the mind of an abandoned child.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

God, I wish he and I had been genuinely close as opposed to the Don't-they-look-nice-together-in-the-airbrushed-family-portrait close.

In the distance he could see the Cape May lighthouse winking, one short, one long.

secondary accounts are viewed by historians as examples of 'generation loss' and the unreliability of oral tradition. The farther you are from the primary source, the harder it gets to be certain the details are one hundred percent accurate.

looking across the bay toward Staten Island.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph - that, too, is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.

Quando si vive nello stesso paese, uno non sente il bisogno di programmare incontri con i vecchi amici: prima o poi è convinto che li incontrerà. Questo però, se ci si muove in sfere diverse, non accade mai.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing; Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness.

It was all a long time ago…

My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.

It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you.

Their relation was that of the sand and water, they touch, they meet, they flirt but they never mingle together.

And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries, there could not come a single human value.

Home feels very cinematic: the further you are from the screen, the clearer the picture. The closer, the more pixelated and fragmented.

I didn't know it, but what I was really looking for was compassion. Not consciously of course. I didn't consciously want to become compassionate. Who in his right mind would give up his place at the center of the universe? Compassion is scary. If you open up too much to people, they have power over you and make you i things for them. Better to keep them at a distance ...

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

smashing into the wreck, mere inches separating him from the accident.