Quotes About Distance

Somehow, through this ritual, I had transcended the impossible distance between me and my mom.

classic psychological technique of dissociation, where they distance themselves from their own emotions as a way of coping with the bad things that are happening to them. They train themselves to stop feeling what they're feeling.

LA isn't a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn't in my house or my car we'll never be together, not even for a moment. And just to be absolutely sure of that, when I leave my car my iPhone escorts me, letting everyone else in the post office know that I'm not really with them, I'm with my own people, who are so hilarious that I can't help smiling to myself as I text them back.

She was standing on the moon and if I responded I would be on the moon too, right next to her.

Always running and always wanting to go back but always being farther and farther away until finally it was just a scene in a movie where a girl says hello into the cauldron of the world and you are just a woman watching the movie with her husband on the couch and his legs are across your lap and you have to go to the bathroom.

You seem incredibly faraway to me, like someone on the other side of a lake. A dot so small that it isn't male or female or young or old; it is just smiling.

on the long ride home, neither of us said anything. we were kites flying in opposite directions attached to strings held by one hand.

CâÅ£iva centimetri, câÅ£iva ani, câteva mii de lei in plus, câteva c?rÅ£i citite în plus, m? rog, lucruri de felul ?sta despart oamenii...

Truly, he who is yonder will be a wise man.

Masjid turns on the radio, and Rabindra Sangeet adds the perfect soundtrack to the scene: "Por ke korile nikot bondhu"—you bring the distant near. One of Baba's favorites.

Mas tudo parecia tão remoto, tão abstrato e estranho para ele. Quanto mais olhava para o mar e para o céu, mais afastado se sentia da humanidade.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

So far away, the one I love. What sky are you under tonight? What wind will my song ride... To carry my voice to you? Tell me, winds, Where he may be. Tell me, winds, What star he looks upon. My ears are like two white seashells, Listening for dawn to come.

While they wished to look out for each other, and to keep tabs on each other, staying in touch took a toll on them, serving as an unsettling reminder of a life not lived, and also they grew less worried each for the other, less worried that the other would need them to be happy, and eventually a month went by without any contact, and then a year, and then a lifetime.

Playing Frisbee gave Sean permission to look at Lu, across a short distance. He didn't have to feel stupid for staring.

How could it be that her husband could be physically so close to her every day, beside her in bed every night, yet so far away, so distant

Il gît, terrassé par ce qui transporte les autres, tellement éloigné de lui-même qu'il prend pour du désespoir ce qui n'est que de l'extase.

Oh s'il te plaît cache-moi dans ton abri antiplanétaire pour que la vie qui a la rage ne me retrouve jamais, redonne-moi mon rire aveugle et la distance, surtout, la distance jadis si grande entre la mort et moi...

A person doesn't have to be here to love you.

So I did what every girl does when she's far from home and a little sad. I ate half a packet of chocolate Digestives and called my mother. 'Lou! Is that you? Hold on, I'm in the middle

You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

Kader arad??? ki?iyi insan?n kar??s?na her seferinde kap? kom?usu olarak ç?karmaz. Uzaklar? yak?n etmek dü?er size. Haritalar? seviniz.

Oysa Serap'?n 'o zamanlar' dedi?i her ?ey, ?imdi ona çok uzak geliyor. Y?llarla tart?lmayacak bir uzakl?k bu. Hem herkesin y?llar? bir de?il ki! O günler: Ne ac?, ne tatl?, sadece uzak. Uzakl???n her zaman bir kay?p anlam?na gelmedi?ini biliyor.

Morality has got nothing to do with the politicians. Simply, because the straight line is considered by them as the longest distance between the two points.