Quotes About Distance

My old friends are getting married, too. The invitations catch up with me eventually, forwarded from Oregon or Spain or Albuquerque. Unfortunately, sometimes these invitations arrive before the wedding has taken place.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other?

Kept Burning and Distant" You return when you feel like it, like rain. And like rain you are tender, with the rain's inept tenderness. A passion so general I could be anywhere. You carry me out into the wet air. You lay me down on the leaves and the strong thing is not the sex, But waking up alone under the tress after.

And then we heard the train from a long ways off. It was how sound traveled her, where sometimes a sound from miles away seemed close at hand, and at other times a person in the same room sounded far away, distant and remote.

I knew my box of paints, stored away on the bedroom shelf of my small house across the ocean, could never create such colors.

For you, I will write of it all --- part truth, part memory, part nightmare --- my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so far from here . . .

numbness between

I miss you every time that we say goodbye, even though I know I will see you the next day. I miss you when you are across the room, and I can see you. I miss you when you sit beside me and I cannot touch you.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see.

The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.

Don't want to reach for me, do you? I mean nothing to you, the little things give you away

The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

So far, here's the picture I've painted of adolescent girls: aloof, withdrawn, and, sometimes, surprisingly mean. There's truth to this picture, but for parents it's not the whole story. Being pushed away is only the half of it. Raising a teenage girl becomes that much more stressful when she interrupts days of distance with moments of intense warmth and intimacy.

Nur zu bald wirst du diesen Ort, dein Heimatdorf, verlassen. Du wirst durch Schmerz und Feuer und Hunger gehen, und ich kann nicht sagen, wie das Ende aussehen wird. Vielleicht wirst du am Ende nach Palästina kommen oder nach Amerika. Und dort wirst du deinen Kindern Geschichten aus deiner Kindheit erzählen, und sie werden diese Stadt für ebenso exotisch, ebenso fern halten wie Shanghai. Und nur zu bald werdensie fort von dir und in ferne Länder gehen wollen.

Please don't. We're an ocean apart in who we are, how we look at life, as well as in our hopes and dreams for the future.

Noah was born she backed off completely for a while, barely visiting

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

Well, there was something I once read... It was an astronomy book that said in most of the constellations, the stars don't actually belong together. They only appear to. They look to us as if they're close to each other, but some of them exist in another part of the galaxy altogether. That's how my family was. We seemed to belong to the same group, but we were all very far apart

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.

I'm living in L.A. but my heart's in Vancouver.

There are sad moments - lonely moments - when you're sitting up in your room all by yourself, shooting on location in Atlanta or Vancouver or L.A., and your family's back home. You can miss home.