Quotes About Distance

It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away.

It was one thing for a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then to back away.

I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is with you but not with you, the man who will get as close to you as he can without ever becoming yours.

He took his time getting to her, as if he was sure she'd wait, sure of his own strength to hold her, even at that distance. He moved like he thought she was afraid of him, too afraid to run.

Los hombres y las mujeres deberían saber que no es posible unirse totalmente en este mundo. En el beso más íntimo, en la caricia más tierna existe un foso, por estrecho que sea. Y frente a él deben inclinarse y someterse con respeto. [...] Él es él y ella es ella y esa distancia nunca se salvará.

Não podia. Hoje em dia os confins do mundo ficam a menos de cinco minutos de Charing Cross. Com o telégrafo sem fios, os confins da Terra não existem. Os reis de Daomé e os lamas do Tibete escutam Londres e Nova Iorque.

Couldn't one go right away, to the far ends of the earth, and be free from it all? One could not. The far ends of the earth are not five minutes from Charing Cross. nowadays. While the wireless is active, there are no far ends of the earth.

There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here.

There's so much of you here with me, really, that it's a pity you aren't all here.

She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep.

Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact.

They were so intimate, and utterly out of touch.

She had passed by. He felt as if he were walking again in a far world, not Cossethay, a far world, the fragile reality. He went on, quiet, suspended, rarefied. He could not bear to think or to speak, nor make any sound or sign, nor change his fixed motion. He could scarcely bear to think of her face. He moved within the knowledge of her, in the world that was beyond reality.

Well, so many words, because I can't touch you. If I could sleep with my arms round you, the ink could stay in the bottle.

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you were going

I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously, like it was something happening at telescopic distance. Like something I was looking at through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

I have distanced what is behind me for good reasons, And call any thing close again when I desire it.

I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

If you stand far enough away from a picture, even a large one, the problem of the edges being at a different distance from you diminishes. Leonardo determined that a proper vantage point for a large picture should be ten to twenty times its width or height. "Stand back until your eye is at least twenty times as far off as the greatest height and width of your work

fuerzas gravitatorias de Newton, por las que dos objetos se atraen mutuamente de manera directamente proporcional a su masa e inversamente proporcional a la distancia que los separa.