Quotes About Distance

I don't want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to think about them. Ones you love who don't love you, ones who are dead or hate you, ones who you think about but never get to be with. I like people but when I get too close, it fucks me up and I can't get things done.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.

I couldn't tell if I was being distant to someone, or rude or even hostile. I only know a good night and a bad night. I know that I remember the bad night longer than the good night.

Dad," he said, "how far away is the sun?" "Five thousand miles," his father said.

He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.

A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote from him she had become now! "It was bound to be so," he said, not looking at her.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. On that day of the week and at

Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.

He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun without looking.

My love keeps growing more passionate and egoistic, while his is waning and waning, and that's why we're drifting apart

He saw that the inmost recesses of her soul, that had always hitherto lain open before him, were closed against him.

Quedaban sólo escasos períodos de amos, que se hacían muy breves. Eran Islotes en los cuales atracaban un momento, para luego adentrarse de nuevo en el mar de la hostilidad latente, expresada en el alejamiento mutuo en que vivían

Kitty felt that Anna was perfectly unaffected and was not trying to conceal anything, but that she lived in another, higher world full of complex poetic interests beyond Kitty's reach.

Descendió pues, al hielo, evitando mirar hacia ella como hacia el sol; pero, lo mismo que al sol, no tenía necesidad de mirarla para verla.

He walked down, trying to avoid looking at her for too long, as if she were the sun, but like the sun, he could still see her even when he was not looking at her.

With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Then I start to struggle With a feeble song Which will overcome me Many miles from home

Dearest Shell, If you let me I'd always keep you 400 miles away and write you pretty poems and letters. . .I'm afraid to live anywhere but in expectation.

And everything depends upon how close you lie to me

The gardener quickly reached for his spectacles and squinted at the carriage in the distance.

Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.