Quotes About Distance

Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.

He may be friendly, but he's not your friend.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

no tenía derecho a escuchar esa muerte, porque esos hombres que mueren en el avión me son ajenos, y la mujer que viaja atrás no es, nunca será, uno de mis muertos.

La cercanía que puede crearse a través del deseo entre dos gentes sin que tengan ninguna necesidad de tocarse es absoluta.

Una desviación minúscula al principio de cualquier recta, y acabas muy lejos de donde debías estar.

Me acordé de lo que me había dicho mi madre: "Allá me oirás mejor. Estaré más cerca de ti. Encontrarás más cercana la voz de mis recuerdos que la de mi muerte, si es que alguna vez la muerte ha tenido alguna voz." Mi madre... La viva.

El cielo está tan alto, y mis ojos tan sin mirada, que vivía contenta con saber dónde quedaba la tierra.

Sólo yo entiendo lo lejos que está el cielo de nosotros; pero conozco cómo acortar las veredas. Todo consiste en morir, Dios mediante, cuando uno quiera y no cuando Él lo disponga. O, si tú quieres, forzarlo a disponer antes de tiempo.

My heart in the East But the rest of me far in the West— How can I savor this life, even taste what I eat? How, in the bonds of the Moor, Zion chained to the Cross, Can I do what I've vowed to and must? Gladly I'd leave All the best of grand Spain For one glimpse of the ruined Shrine's dust.

the way the people closest to us are able so effortlessly to thrust us to the farthest distance

He knew me so well. He was the only one who could make me feel as if the world were right again, and I was loved and cherished and known and he would never, ever leave...even at a distance, he could read me. He could find that vulnerable spot and say the right words, do the right things, that brought me back time after time.

HIDEOUS PRESENTS DONATED BY ADULTS These should be displayed and cherished in proportion to the sacredness of the bond between giver and receiver, divided by the number of miles they live apart.

You may also freeze around inauthentic people, which can convey aloofness — but this is clearly a protective device. Some empaths prefer socializing online to keep others at a distance, so there's less of the tendency to absorb their discomfort and stress.

He has shown himself to be someone who is worthy of my gratitude. For you understand, my child"—Colette was again writing to Germaine Patat—"everything I'm not speaking of in this letter.… Distance and reflexion have been working on me, and I am obliged to observe that I've been brought to this place by a well-prepared train of events, which horrifies me. I also know that the house I shall return to will be empty.

Architecture cannot, however, become an instrument of mere functionality, bodily comfort and sensory pleasure without loosing its existentially meditating task. A distinct sense of distance, resistance and tension has to be maintained in relation to programme, function and comfort.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Erkenntnis ist eine Frage der richtigen Entfernung und steht deshalb nur Gott und den Quantenphysikern offen, während gewöhnliche Menschen blind in mittlerer Distanz zu den Dingen verharren.

Menschen brauchten Abstand voneinander. Gerhard hatte lange genug in Berlin gelebt, um das zu wissen.

We didn't speak, and a beautiful, sweet evil grew between us.

And nevertheless, no, I have nothing to say to them, to my parents. Nothing. Nothing and everything, as always. If I tried – out of boldness, through luck, or in distress – to share with them some of the violence that causes me to be so totally on my own, they would not know where I am, who I am, what it is, in others, that rubs me the wrong way.

Es la distancia la que embellece las cosas y las despeja del horror del momento, de la miseria de la cotidianidad

distancia la que embellece las cosas y las despeja