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Quotes About Distance

Lo mismo que ella en él, en la más extrema soledad, también él piensa en ella en el mismo momento. Apartada por leguas y muros, invisibles e inalcanzables una para otra, respiran sus dos almas con idéntico deseo en el mismo segundo del tiempo: en espacios inalcanzables, por encima del tiempo, se unen sus pensamientos, al difundirse en vibraciones circulares, lo mismo que labio y labio en el beso.
~ Stefan Zweig
Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.
~ Stefan Zweig
Este estar cerca y a la vez lejos de ella, sin ver ni un reflejo de su pelo, sin oír siquiera una palabra medio ahogada de su voz y, sin embargo, con las almas estrechamente entrelazadas, le resulta un tormento insoportable.
~ Stefan Zweig
La música me iba envolviendo de inquietud, mi nerviosismo era cada vez más apasionado, me tuve que poner en tensión para contenerme con todas mis fuerzas, hasta tal punto era intenso el afán de mis labios por acercarse a tu mano. (...) Era incapaz de soportar tenerte tan cerca y tan lejos a la vez, a mi lado en la penumbra.
~ Stefan Zweig
La giraffa ha il cuore lontano dai pensieri. Si è innamorata ieri, e ancora non lo sa.
~ Stefano Benni
My love, I see you through my tears. No pity in your face I see. I have sailed far across the years; Stretch out, stretch out your arms to me.
~ Stella Benson
It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
~ Stephan Pastis
Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.
~ Stephanie Laurens
My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
~ Stephanie Mills
Mine to you. Yours to me. Bonded by blood, by spirit and by soul, we are one. No distance too far, no enemy too powerful, no sacrifice too great. I will always find you. I will always protect you. No matter what the cost. I am yours and you are mine. - Elijah
~ Stephanie Rowe
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
~ Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
~ Igor Stravinsky
It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.
~ Colleen Hoover
I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.
~ Charles Mackay
You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
~ Bob Newhart
Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.
~ Josh Marshall
If you are going to stick to the truth then you need to keep your distance from the Chinese government and indeed to any form of politics, including the politics of democratic countries.
~ Liao Yiwu
The longest distance in the universe is not between the stars, but between the religion and the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You should know the truth about the stars--- even though it seems like they're close together, up there in heavens, they're zillion light years apart.
~ Sara Shepard
Klar sieht, wer von ferne sieht, nebelhaft, wer Anteil nimmt.
~ Lao Tzu