Quotes About Distance

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

when you are the only passenger if there is a place further from me I beg you do not go

Travel" Sometimes I know I love you better than all the others I kiss it's funny but it's true and I wouldn't roll from one to the next so fast if you hadn't knocked them all down like ninepins when you roared by my bed I keep trying to race ahead and catch you at the newest station or whistle stop but you are flighty about schedules and always soar away just as leaning from my taxicab my breath reaches for the back of your neck

if there is a place further from me I beg you do not go Frank O'Hara, from "Morning Poem," The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara . (University of California Press March 31, 1995)

Cats conspire to keep us at arm's length.

Es ist die Angst vor der Frage, wie weit ich entfernt bin von dem, was er ist. Ob wir uns im Wesen unterscheiden oder nur im Stadium.

For all the intrinsic meaning of the word kilometer, we might just as well say that "we're moving toward Leo at three pizzas and a cabbage per walrus.

The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

Four thousand A.U. plus is a long trip-and that's as the crow flies. Or, actually, as the photon fires, because of course there aren't a lot of crows in near-interstellar space.

He who is near the Church is often far from God.

Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.

It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

Mai in vita mia Dimenticherò la tua presenza. Tu mi hai presa quando ero spezzata E mi hai riparata Su questa terra troppo piccola Dove potrei mai voltare il mio sguardo? Così immenso, così profondo! Non c'è più tempo. Non c'è più nulla. Distanza. C'è soltanto la realtà. Quello che è stato, è stato per sempre.

Me hace tanto bien saber que tu realmente me quieres y que no importa dónde andes tu me CIELAS (de cielo).

She says nothing to Tony as she goes by, and he says nothing to her. Two people in the same house with zero to give each other.

Each time she appears, she narrows that down for us. Since she can only make projections five miles away from wherever her base is, each time she does appear, we learn more about where she might be." I nodded slowly. "Like a catapult that shoots enormous grapes.

Somewhere far beyond this world, I feel nothing anymore

To be honest, I think emotional accessibility is a shame trigger for researchers and academics. Very early in our training, we are taught that a cool distance and inaccessibility contribute to prestige, and that if you're too relatable, your credentials come into question.

Like all sympathy, it said, "I'm over here and you're over there. I'm sorry for you and I'm sad for you. AND, while I'm sorry that happened to you, let's be clear: I'm over here." This is not compassion.

you know how things always sound better when they're far away and you don't know the details?