Quotes About Distance

No man, even if he is sixty yrs of age ought to live more than three months at a time from his family...

If they make the choice to walk over me rather than walk with me, I'll have to love them from afar.

I don't know what to say or how to say it." So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. "Everything's fine," I said. But everything wasn't fine. Not at all.

God seems far away and French fries are right around the corner at the drive-thru.

He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.

Reese held Allacazam out to him, wondering if Hirianthial would take him directly from her hands and risk touching her, or if she'd have to set the Flitzbe on the floor and let him roll to the man's boots.

And I thought of the Transit of Venus: that though the bodies be vast and distant, and their motions occult, their hesitations retrograde, one could, I thought, with exceeding care and preparation, observe, and in their distance, know them, triangulate to arrive at the ambits of their motivation; and that in this calculation alone, one might banish uncertainty, and know at last what constituted other bodies, and how small the gulf that lies between us all.

We thought there was a great distance between the future and us, and now here we are, falling through it.

We were as strangers, in the moment-as intimate as strangers-for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

I waited beside my son, but he scarcely knew it. His eyes had found the horizon, that seam of waves and sky.

I did not mind the emptiness either. For a thousand years I had tried to fill the space between myself and my family

She went inside and watched him walk back toward sixteen

The sun was visible from Florida, but it hadn't gotten to me.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

There is no pleasure in being duped by the text into a helpless viewer, but there is considerable pleasure in selectively viewing the text for points of identification and distance, in controlling one's relationship with the represented characters in the light of one's own social and psychological context.

if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time so calmly aristocratic that I should never be able to approach her.

I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From everything I want to be.

Aquí en la frontera, caen las hojas. Aunque mis vecinos son todos bárbaros, y tú, tú estás a mil kilómetros de aquí, siempre hay dos tazas en mi mesa.

Hemos estado completamente desnudos uno frente al otro... ¡No podemos estar más separados, sin embargo! Pero lo estamos

I had just written a letter to Alison, but already she seemed far away, not in distance, not in time, but in some dimension for which there is no name. Reality, perhaps.

Here at the frontier, there are falling leaves. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table.

Estoy tan lejos de todo...! De la normalidad... De la luz... De lo que quiero ser.

Eso de conocer a una persona le hace sentir a una automáticamente cercana a ella. ¡Aunque una desee que estuviese en otro planeta!