Quotes About Distance

To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

È per smaltire un carico di nostalgia che sei andato tanto lontano!

Cosimo sat in the ash tree every day, gazing at the meadow as if he could read in it something that had long been consuming him inside: the very idea of distance, of the gap that can't be bridged, of the wait that can last longer than life.

Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply. If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria.

My brother maintains," I answered, "that those who wish to look carefully at the earth should stay at the necessary distance," and Voltaire very much admired the answer.

At times it seems to me that the distance between my writing and her reading is unbridgeable, that whatever I write bears the stamp of artifice and incongruity; if what I am writing were to appear on the polished surface of the page she is reading, it would rasp like a fingernail on a pane, and she would fling the book away with horror.

And a keen jealousy invades me, not of other people, but of that me made of ink and periods and commas, who wrote the novels I will write no more, the author who continues to enter the privacy of this young woman, while I, I here and now, with the physical energy I feel surging, much more reliable than the creative impulse, I am separated from her by the immense distance of a keyboard and a white page on the roller.

anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it

Há três hipóteses a respeito dos habitantes de Bauci: que odeiam a terra; que a respeitam a ponto de evitar qualquer contato; que a amam da forma que era antes de existirem e com binóculos e telescópios apontados para baixo não se cansam de examiná-la, folha por folha, pedra por pedra, formiga por formiga, contemplando fascinados a própria ausência.

in everything that was most remote from her lay the value of having her, the sense of his being the one who had her.

Amerigo avrebbe voluto continuare a scontrarsi con le cose, a battersi, eppure intanto raggiungere dentro di sé la calma al di là di tutto... Non sapeva cosa avrebbe voluto: capiva solo quant'era distante, lui come tutti, dal vivere come va vissuto quello che cercava di vivere

Domani, Lettore e Lettrice, se sarete insieme, se vi coricherete nello stesso letto come una coppia assestata, ognuno accenderà la lampada al suo capezzale e sprofonderà nel suo libro; due letture parallele accompagneranno l'approssimarsi del sonno; prima tu poi tu spegnerete la luce; reduci da universi separati, vi ritroverete fugacemente nel buio dove tutte le lontananze si cancellano, prima che sogni divergenti vi trascinino ancora tu da una parte e tu dall'altra.

Literature is a search for the book hidden in the distance that alters the value and meaning of the known books; it is the pull toward the new apocryphal text still to be rediscovered or invented.

I have dizzy spells when I least expect them, even if there is no danger in sight…Altitude or depth makes no difference…if I gaze at the sky at night, and I think of the distance of the stars…Or even in the daytime…if I were to lie down here, for example, with my eyes facing up, my head would swim…" And she points to the clouds passing swiftly, driven by the wind. She speaks of her head swimming as of a temptation that somehow attracts her.

Anche ricordare il male può essere un piacere quando il male è mescolato non dico al bene ma al vario, al mutevole, al movimentato, insomma a quello che posso pure chiamare il bene e che è il piacere di vedere le cose a distanza e di raccontarle come ciò che è passato.

they live for each other; their eyes are interlocked but there is not love between them.

La forza dell'eremita si misura non tanto da quanto lontano è andato a stare, ma dalla poca distanza che gli basta per staccarsi dalla città, senza mai perderla di vista

Le nostre distanze un po' s'accorciavano un po' s'allungavano ma ormai era chiaro che l'uno non avrebbe mai raggiunto l'altro né mai l'altro l'uno. Di giocare a rincorrerci avevamo perso ogni gusto, e del resto non eravamo più bambini, ma ormai non ci restava altro da fare.

Upon the high seas is the wrong way of saying it, a horizon of ocean makes shallow the place of an onlooker.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

O, Bože, zašto si mi dao srce koje me bez prestanka vu?e za daljinom i ljepotom nevi?enih krajeva? Zašto si u?inio da sre?a moja uvijek boravi ondje gdje mene nema?

We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.