Quotes About Distance

Susmaya devam etti. Uzun bir sükut. Dakikalar geçiyor. Her an birbirimizden biraz daha uzakla??yorduk. Konu?ursak, birbirimize bunu hissettirmekten ba?ka bir ?eye yaramayacak. Bunun için susuyoruz. Ne onda bu büyük mesafeyi atlatmak ve ötekinin yan?na varmak iste?i, ne bende kuvveti vard?. Bu sessizlik içinde zaman aram?zdan bir dü?man gibi geçiyor.

When it comes to open flame, you're never as 'far enough back' as you think you are.

What finger-shaped Florida lacks in breadth it makes up for in length; Tallahassee is 480 miles from Miami (farther than New York City is from Cleveland).

yet the world between them was wide.

O world, Your love, your chances, are beyond the stretch Of any hand from here! And so, unreal, A touching dream to which we all are lulled But wake from separately.

At this unique distance from isolation it becomes still more difficult to find words at once true and kind, or not untrue and not unkind.

After all, television is confined to a glass box. No matter how gruesome the scenes on the screen may be, no blood will spill on the carpet. No matter how close television seems to be bring the day's events, they always remain distant enough to be viewed with dispassion. The global village can be visited and abandoned at will.

He goes back to the books—this crazy number of books in the house neatly lined up or stacked in piles. All of a sudden I see a sort of admiration return to his face, but it's a painful admiration; what he likes about me is also what keeps me separate from him.

I say to myself: Basically, what's new? Don't we already spend most of our time avoiding each other? Missing each other? I smile at the double meaning—an unsightly, tragic smile, of course.

J'ajoute : c'est à ce moment-là qu'on s'est perdus de vue, lui et moi. J'articule ces derniers mots sans y mettre le moindre affect, comme si la vie, c'était ça, simplement ça, se fréquenter et se perdre de vue et continuer à vivre, comme s'il n'y avait pas des déchirements, des séparations qui laissent exsangues, des ruptures dont on peine à se remettre, des regrets qui vous poursuivent longtemps après.

The strange land exhausts him. Death exhausts him. It has fed on him in the way young eager goats suckle their mother, forcing her to lie on her side because she cannot continue. Death has taken everything from him. He has nothing left. He is thousands of kilometres from a village that no longer exists, thousands of kilometres from the empty tombs of the corpses who died only a few feet away from them. He is thousands of days away from a life that was once beautiful and delightful.

Distances" Swifts turn in the heights of the air; higher still turn the invisible stars. When day withdraws to the ends of the earth their fires shine on a dark expanse of sand. We live in a world of motion and distance. The heart flies from tree to bird, from bird to distant star, from star to love; and love grows in the quiet house, turning and working, servant of thought, a lamp held in one hand.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart"- Phyllis Theroux

It is only by maintaining a reasonable distance from the book that we may be able to appreciate its true meaning.

My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

When I receive offers from overseas, I respond with handwritten letters since I'm unable to visit them myself.

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.

Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.