Quotes About Distance

How far would we have to go to run from winter?

My darling girl, I love you, have courage, my mother wrote, and keep far away from Orion Lake.

My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew.

The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains.

Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff's-edge, and we weren't really leaves, even if I'd been careful to forget that.

our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

everyone everywhere suddenly was to 'distance learn,' that awkward, heartless neologism

There was a campaign to get people to accept that distance was good. Distance was how you showed love.

Why did he write to her, "I can't live without you?" And why did she write to him "I can't live without you?" For he went west and she went east and they both lived.

One Parting Why did he write to her, I can't live without you? And why did she write to him, I can't live without you? For he went west, she went east, And they both lived.

She knew there was a big Chicago far off, where all the trains ran.

Io, Bologna, non l'ho mai vista. Ma la conosco bene, anche se probabilmente è una città tutta mia. È una città grande: almeno tre ore.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Perhaps she loved me, in her own way, as I loved her, in mine. But we didn't know one another. Perhaps because I never allowed her to know me, or I never took any steps towards getting to know her. We spent our lives like two strangers who see each other every single day and greet one another out of politeness.

El nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros.

Durante anos fugi sem saber de quê. Julguei que, se corresse atrás do horizonte, as sombras do passado se afastariam do meu caminho. Julguei que, se criasse suficiente distância, as vozes da minha mente se calariam para sempre.

Quizá me quería, a su manera, como yo la quise a ella, a la mía. Pero no nos conocíamos. Quizá porque yo nunca la dejé conocerme, o nunca di un paso por conocerla a ella. Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía. Y pienso que quizá murió sin perdonarme

Mañana, o tal vez pasado, te escribiré otra vez para decirte que te quiero, aunque eso no signifique nada para ti.

Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía.

Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning slowly away from the moon. This is pleasurable. Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad? In one of the tenses I singing an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear. La lala la. See? I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross to reach you. For I am in love with you and this is what it is like or what it is like in words.

Perhaps nobody knows anybody..It was a terrifying thought: like the alone. That you could know people well, and know them again the following year, and then know them more...and yet remain strangers forever.

There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Stars are like people,.. just because they appear to emerge from the same point doesn't mean that they do. This is an illusion of perspective created by distance. Not all families manage to hold it together,..Everyone moves in different directions. That we all emerge from the same point is a misconception; to travel in different directions is the very nature of every being and every existing thing.

Love can soften people, I believe that. But in me, now, love riles up an anger, a red-hot rage that crawls on my skin, seeps into my blood and brings out the worst in me. That's why everyone I love is better off loving me from afar.