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Quotes About Distance

Of course there is nothing the matter with the starsIt is my emptiness among themWhile they drift farther away in the invisible morning.
~ W. S. Merwin
How far away the stars seem, and how far Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!
~ W.B. Yeats
Young Man. Aoife is far away. I am alone. I have come alone in the midst of you To weigh this sword against Cuchullain's sword.
~ W.B. Yeats
gun is an impersonal weapon and kills cleanly and decently at a distance. Killing with the bare hands at close quarters savours too much of pure savagery for most people.
~ Unknown
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street
~ W.H. Auden
Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
~ W.H. Auden
What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?
~ W.H. Auden
Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.
~ Unknown
Traveling Together" If we are separated, I will try to wait for you on your side of things your side of the wall and the water and of the light moving at its own speed even on leaves that we have seen I will wait on one side while a side is there
~ W.S. Merwin
In each world they may put us Farther apart Do not die As this world is made I might Live forever
~ W.S. Merwin
part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you
~ W.S. Merwin
How beautiful you must be to have been able to lead me this far with only the sound of your going away
~ W.S. Merwin
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
~ Robert Breault
People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.
~ Stanley Donwood
People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally?
~ Tori Amos
Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.
~ Stewart Francis
Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.
~ Marilyn Suzanne Miller
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
~ Pablo Neruda
Kylie looked up towards the sky. "Sometimes I just wish Heaven wasn't so far away.
~ C.C. Hunter, Taken at Dusk
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
In my own house my voice don't carry from the kitchen to the toilet.
~ Philip Roth
Había aprendido lo peor de las lecciones que puede dar la vida: la de que carece de sentido. Y cuando sucede tal cosa, la felicidad nunca vuelve a ser espontánea, sino que es artificial e, incluso entonces, se compra el precio de un obstinado distanciamiento de uno mismo y de su historia.
~ Philip Roth