Quotes About Distance

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends—an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels—and it is that—comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there.

I am seeing that I cannot be a part of the music that sets him free.

Twenty feet away. Even in the crowded hallway,there is something in her that radiates out to me

When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us.

But now when I kissed her, I was always measuring how much of her was there. And I was wondering how much of me was left.

when I look out a window I wish for you on the other side even if you're not there I can see you in the clouds

There is the distance of miles, and the distance of brothers, to overcome. He can feel the world coming between them again. But the world is so much smaller than it used to be.

She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

Since when do politics affect a mammals ability to sustain a flame? That aside, who says a burning mouse can't run a distance of twelve feet?

The two of you grew apart,' my mother would say. She made it sound as if we'd veered off in different directions, though in fact we had the exact same destination. I just never made it.

It's so hard to predict which friends will last and which will fade away. Quite often I'd move and lose half the contacts in my address book, people I thought would be with me forever. It's not that we outgrew one another. They just couldn't be bothered to put a stamp on a letter. Or I couldn't. Of course it's easier now with email.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them the best. I just don't feel the need to see them again.

You'll be talking to him and he'll walk away—not angry but just sort of finished with you.

If you happen to live there, it's always refreshing to view Manhattan from afar. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

friends will be much apart.they will respect more other's privacy than their communion.

Miraba a Bárbara. Ahora tan lejana. Hasta tal punto habíamos retrocedido que yo casi estaba esperando que alguien nos presentara.

No era capaz de emprender la reconstrucción del amor, vaciado mi corazón como una caracola de mar que produce un ruido muy muy lejano si acercas la oreja.

Manticore System's G0 primary and its G2 companion were dim behind her, reduced to two more stars amid millions, for the Junction lay almost seven light-hours from them.

Once you have made up your mind to drop a person it is most inconsiderate of them not to come within dropping distance.

Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals

A voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.

The man was clearly ill, however, and illness shortens the distance between a man and a woman.

don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.