Quotes About Distance

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

As for the stars, they were never ours to lose; the truth is, we've lost nothing but the illusion of their proximity.

You needed someone to vent to, and I had enough distance from it that it didn't weigh me down. I could commiserate and walk away.

Sometimes distance improves love. Sometimes it dissolves it. I think you deserve to know which has happened.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you!

Mi avvicinai a Spinoza perché mi sembrava che avvicinasse Dio; me ne sono allontanato, scoprendo che lo allontanava. Ora non so più.

Les villages lointains sont comme les paupières Et parmi les citrons leurs coeurs sont suspendus - LES FIANÇAILLES -

He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

Martin comprit alors que ni le temps ni la distance n'avait tempéré son amour. Mais un amour qui vous fait souffrir à en crever est-il vraiment un amour ?

Bio sam toliko blizu tebe, da mi je hladno pored drugih.

Es bleibt zwischen Menschen, sie seien noch so eng verbunden, immer ein Abgrund offen, den nur die Liebe, und auch nur mit einem Notsteg, überbrücken kann. (Hermann Hesse)

So nah war ich dir, dass mir kalt wird in der Nähe der anderen.

Allora non si parlava di Internet, e-mail, Skype o sms. Allora le lettere d'amore partite dalla Francia impiegavano dieci giorni ad arrivare in Califonria. Allora, quando si scriveva «Ti amo», bisognava attendere la risposta tre settimane. E attendere tre settimane la risposta a un «Ti amo» era assolutamente disumano, per un ventenne.

With Pep's help and his own intuition, Messi started playing football with an accordion-like movement: the further the ball was away from him, the more distance he would put between himself and the ball. The closer it was to him, the closer he would move to get involved.

Eons of loneliness, and then one day your ellipsis peaks toward that of another planet and there is a gasp of nearness. Wouldn't you try to make the most of it? Wouldn't you, too, combust and flare and explode if you had to?

No puedo dejarte, Edith. De hecho, me descubro pensando en ti en los momentos más inoportunos del día. Siento que un vínculo, un lazo existe entre tu corazón y el mío. Si ese lazo se rompe debido a la distancia o el tiempo… temo que mi corazón deje de latir y muera. Y pronto me olvidarías. Edith recuperó el aliento para hablar. —Nunca, nunca te olvidaría.

I feel as if a link exists between your heart and mine, and should that link be broken, either by distance or by time, then my heart would cease to beat and I would die.

so my wife took them up to a friend's on Kinnelon Lake." Not far enough,

Mãe, que é que é o mar, Mãe?" - Mar era longe, muito longe dali, espécie duma lagôa enorme, um mundo d'água sem fim, Mãe mesma nunca tinha avistado o mar, suspirava. - "Pois, Mãe, então mar é o que a gente tem saudade?

The gods and men who have kept their prestige for long have never tolerated discussion. For the crowd to admire, it must be kept at a distance.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.