Quotes About Distance

Maybe everyone is crazy up in these mountains. Maybe the air up here makes you absurd, the scent of flowers and rock and snow. And I've never spoken like that to anyone in my life before. You're my only friend here, you know that? And you're fifty years away.

Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.

I love her bare legs from a distance. When she's standing by a pool. When she's facing the water, thinking. Her legs are white as watermelon rind, veined blue from cold. There's that 'H' shape behind her knees. The H trembles softly with the swimming-water cold.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

Afterward, he had held Iris so tightly. If she hadn't said, I can't even breathe right now, he would have still been holding on to her, wanting to pull her inside of him. Even bent in front of the side mirror, just inches from him, Iris still felt too far away.

It's tempting for stepmothers at the breaking point to lower their expectations to where they disengage emotionally from their stepchildren. That's where trouble can set in, because it directly affects the marriage, which in the early years is the weakest link in a new stepfamily. Because in any marriage, when emotional distance sets in, it's hard for partners to turn back to each other and back to the marriage.

Démons et merveilles Vents et marées Au loin déjà la mer s'est retirée

A material thing is first of all "the only bridge of communication between two minds." The bridge is a passage, but it is also distance maintained. The materiality of the book keeps two minds at an equal distance, whereas explication is the annihilation of one mind by another.

Je t'aime jusque là

Estoy inscrito en un gimnasio. Tengo una credencial con mi fotografía... camino dos cuadras, la distancia que separa mi casa de ese gimnasio moderno, lleno de gente optimista (que me irrita) y estremecido por aquellos ritmos vocingleros que escupen los parlantes (que me irritan más aún).

Vendríamos de la mano, a media calle, solos, y no diríamos nada. Que lo diga la noche. Que digan que te quiero las estrellas, los rumores lejanos, la distancia.

Sí los amores de lejos son de... el estarse peleando por carta es el súmmmum de la estupidez.

Je suis si vulnérable aux besoins et à l'influence des membres de ma famille que de temps en temps je m'en tiens à l'écart. Je ne leur écris pas. Je ne leur rends pas visite. Je ne mens pas, je ne nie pas, je me tiens seulement à l'écart.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

Krohan but from that distance he sounded almost

But where Dr. Whittaker gave his words and phrases special emphasis and personal coloring, as though they were matters which required argument and persuasion, Father Jackson spoke almost wholly without emphasis and with only the subtlest coloring, as if the personal emotion, the coloring, were cast against the words from a distance, like echoes.

Yo vengo sin idiomas desde mi soledad, y sin idiomas voy hacia la tuya. No hay nada que decir, pero supongo que hablaremos desnudos sobre esto, algo después, quitándole importancia, avivando los ritmos del pasado, las cosas que están lejos y que ya no nos duelen.

Sos tan alto que tu cabeza choca la luna de plata y desde abajito yo siento que no te lavás las patas.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

Al primo sguardo distante, reso più incerto dai veli di nebbia che fanno del sole un disco biancastro, non sai se il miraggio sia il mare che stai solcando, e invece è terraferma, o i palazzi e le chiese appoggiati sull'acqua, in realtà scogli di forme architettoniche.

ô literatura! Por que as coisas nos parecem sempre belas quando protegidas pela distância?

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

Sometimes when He seems the farthest away from us, He's really the closest.

One soldier wrote home saying that he and his peers sought to kiss her shadow.