Quotes About Distance

He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world.

Seated in the embrasure of this window, my lady was separated from Robert Audley by the whole length of the room, and the young man could only catch an occasional glimpse of her fair face, surrounded by its bright aureole of hazy, golden hair.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

I wanted to know people. I wanted to love. But I didn't realize how badly I had been hurt. I didn't realize that my habit of distance had become so unconscious and deep that I didn't know how to be with another person. I could only fix that person in my imagination and turn him this way and that, trying to feel him, until my mind was tired and raw.

Dia... het is zo. Ik begrijp er niet veel van, maar ik geloof je wél. Je komt uit een grote stad hier heel ver vandaan, waar je heel erg ziek bent, en hier ben je opeens gezond en wel. Hoe bestaat dat? - Arianna

sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers

You never come back, not all the way. Always, there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier, thin as the glass of a mirror. You never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

What's left of me is just for you to see in your heart Even though we may be far apart Never fear if I should disappear You will see there are still stars that shine after me

Agatha Swanburne - "All things look different close up.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

There must be concentric circles around us and boundaries. French hedonist philosopher Michel Onfray coined the word eumetry (the "good measure"): the right measure of safe distance that must be kept with "relational delinquents" in order to secure a life of pleasure.

I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I should have given her was a real journey on earth.

I Lochs si estendono da una collina all'altra e misurano in modo sempre più palpabile la lontananza verso cui mi spingo. Arthur russa come una locomotiva a vapore. Anna e Luna dondolano la testa. Sembrano due sorelle siamesi. Il tic tac del mio orologio risuona nel silenzio della notte. Mi rendo conto che tutto questo piccolo mondo ripartirà senza di me.

Short prayers with long legs travel far.

The distance between two souls is love.

Sora and I were separated by the distance of a single night, but it was just the same as being separated by a thousand miles.

Sure,but that don't mean I've got to go far away.On your own has nothing to do with distance.

She had shrunk for him and he still hadn't found the space he needed. No more.

Tears were a kind of language and I felt all language was far away from me. I was beneath tears. Tears were what you shed in purgatory. By the time you were in hell it was too late.

It is strange how close the past is, even when you imagine it to be so far away. Strange how it can just jump out of a sentence and hit you.

She had shrunk for him, but he still hadn't found the space he needed.

I had been to sea before, but being at sea no longer felt like being at sea. The progress of humanity seemed to be measured in the distance we placed between ourselves and nature. We could now be in the middle of the Atlantic, on a steam ship such as the Etruria, and feel as if we were sitting in a restaurant in Mayfair.

She had shrunk for him, but he still hadn't found the space he needed.