Quotes About Distance

Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds.

Things I Want Decided Which shouldn't exist in this world, the one who forgets or the one who is forgotten? Which is better, to love one who has died or not to see each other when you're alive? Which is better, the distant lover you long for or the one you see daily without desire? Which is the least unreliable among fickle things — the swift rapids, a flowing river, or this human world?

From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first finds its way to itself only on a detour via a complete externalization in other things and in other humans. Only at the greatest distance from itself does it become conscious of itself in its irreplaceable singularity as an individuated being.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

You may want to find a way to suggest ironic distance between the poet and speaker.

the postal official, said, 'Pray continue, Mr Hill.' Hill took a deep breath. 'In answer to your question, Ma'am, as to why the postage should cost the same no matter the distance travelled, I say this: should a girl in Edinburgh writing to her sweetheart in London pay more than the one who lives in Ealing? Should the merchant in Manchester pay more to write to

I had to be alone to know we were so close.

He used to tell himself although he knew it wasn't true that the air around her house was different because it was near to her.

But he would like to feel that he was breathing the same air she breathed that he was in the same country she was in.

You probably know that a raindrop falling into Lake Itasca in Minnesota will travel the length of the Mississippi and arrive at the Gulf of Mexico about ninety days later," he said.

Emotional distance keeps many good men from being better fathers;

You can't hammer a nail over the Internet.

He and God weren't friends anymore.

la heterogeneidad de las preferencias y la falta de singularidad institucional, junto con la geografía, crean una necesidad de diversidad institucional. La diversidad institucional impide la plena globalización económica. A su vez, la incompleta integración económica refuerza la heterogeneidad y el papel de la distancia.

I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

The friendship was never repaired, of course, but, then, how could it be? The two men had met in the nineteen-seventies and had seen each other only twice in the intervening years. The mutual affection they felt was an almost entirely theoretical construct, based on memories of long ago shared experiences- not unlike what I felt toward my brother by then, I suppose. Part fading recollections, part faith.

The phone collapsed distances, just as the radio did, and, like the radio, it relied on the miracle of imagination: one had to concentrate deeply, plunge headlong into it.

Mastering your mind and gaining separation or psychological distance from the noise in your head is essential to protecting happiness.

First, we can distance through space. The classic move is known, unsurprisingly, as the "fly-on-the-wall technique.

I am best viewed from a distance.

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

The space between the television set and the viewer is holy ground.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.