Quotes About Distance

I often thought how peculiar my life must look to someone reading those letters, far away.

Every new event - everything I did for the rest of my life - would only separate us more and more: days she was n longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.

Buffalo is a long way from New York City; but apart from a dreamlike, feverish stop in Syracuse, where I walked and watered Popper and bought us a couple of cheese danishes because there wasn't anything else—I managed to sleep almost the whole way, through Batavia and Rochester and Syracuse and Binghamton, with my cheek against the window and cold air coming through at the crack, the vibration taking me back to Wind, Sand and Stars and a lonely cockpit high above the desert.

so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

it would be a long, long time before I heard anything from Boris again.

There's only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later.

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. And

Over the sward and low grounds a thin film of mist was stealing like smoke, marking the distances with a transparent veil; and here and there we could see the river faintly flashing in the moonlight.

They had spoken and passed like ships at sea, in this wide life, and now who could count the miles and billows between them! Never to cross or come in sight again!

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury , played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

La mémoire d'un enfant exagère les distances et les hauteurs.

I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.

I miss you. I miss you so fucking bad it hurts, but I don't know how to find you even though you're right in front of me.

Most people avoid you because they can't afford you.

Solo en las vastas extensiones del espacio la luz parece lenta

If you are lucky enough to find a soul mate in life, hold on to him or her, even if an ocean keeps you apart. One soul. Two bodies. Ari was right. Arthur Bowler

As President Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." The same is true of warfare; it looks mighty easy when your rifle is a budget approval and you are six thousand miles from the battlefield.

Relationship building at a distance, through the filter of a computer, is ultimately ineffective for the sincere friend seeker, but it is ideally suited to the sociopath whose powers of manipulation are enhanced when he can operate not merely behind his usual masks but behind an electronic mask as well.

The biggest explosion of the First World War was set off by miners from the allied forces, who dug shafts underneath German trenches. At Messines Ridge in Belgium, just over nine hundred thousand pounds of explosive mines were placed in nineteen tunnels. When they were detonated, the resulting explosion was so loud that it was heard by the British Prime Minister, who was at his desk 140 miles away in Downing Street, London.

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

It's easy to rattle the saber if the enemy's five thousand or more kilometers distant.