Quotes About Distance

Es más fácil querer a alguna gente a distancia.

How far would I travel To be where you are? How far is the journey From here to a star?

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.

Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.' -- The Last Trump

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

The mistiness of distance hides the truth

Es una lección invariable a la humanidad que la distancia en el tiempo, y asimismo en el espacio, da perspectiva a las cosas.

Sin la interdependencia humana, desaparece el principal aliciente que ofrece la vida; se esfuman casi todos los valores intelectuales y falta una auténtica razón para vivir. La visualización no puede sustituir la presencia personal. Incluso los propios solarianos se dan cuenta de que la visualización no es más que un sentido a larga distancia.

El Aprendiz tartamudeó: —Brinsley Sheridan Cooper, del Setenta y ocho, señor. Harlan casi experimentó cierta simpatía por el muchacho. Solo diecisiete Siglos de distancia del suyo propio. Eran casi unos vecinos en el Tiempo.

The years separated them as effectively as a partition.

Estas largas separaciones son peligrosas, el amor resbala por arenas inciertas.

I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.

Distance erases the contours and colors of memory. I have letters and photographs of the family that Juan Martín built in Norway; he calls me on the phone and has come to see me in recent years, when I no longer had the strength for such a long trip, but when I think of my son I can't seem to conjure the exact details of his features or voice.

Cómo voy a ayudarla? Eso pasó hace varios años, al otro lado del mundo —dijo él. —Todo está conectado en el universo. Olvídate de las distancias y del tiempo, haz cuenta que todo sucede en un presente eterno, en este mismo bosque, en tu memoria, en tu corazón.

la tenacidad de una pasión nacida en la distancia, alimentada con cartas románticas y fortalecida por una verdadera montaña de inconvenientes.

years. Thanks to them, she was saved from boredom, one of the scourges of old age. The rest of the Lark House community was like the view of the bay: something to be enjoyed from a distance, without getting her feet wet. For

True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.

I curse you, even from the distance of these many years, for keeping me so hungry that if affected my brain and subordinated me to your evil. And my apologizes to the animals for comparing you to them, because surely animals are more humane.

One place I haven't made it to - mainly because it's so far away - is Australia, so I'd love to go there. I've heard great things about Australia and New Zealand.

When I lived in New Zealand I took my then girlfriend to Tahiti - which is a lot easier to get to from there than it is from England.

I didn't want to be one of those touring musicians who get to hear about their daughter taking her first steps while they're in New Zealand.

Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn't matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed... some bit of her mortality slipping away.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near to the United States.