Quotes About Distance

The wiser we become, the more we do our best to keep a great distance between ourselves and love.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

L'exil accélère l'oubli. L'exil va vite. Il suffit de quelques mois parfois, d'une année ou deux, pour que le pays qui était le sien ne soit plus le même.

Some People, we know in a heartbeat. Others, we'll never know, even if we speak to them for a thousand years.

Fuck!" Sweat rolled down his spine as he covered the remaining distance at extreme speed. She wasn't allowed to die, he thought, his rage dark red flame. Not until he'd flushed this vicious hunger for her from his system.

moments later, but she stayed far away from

A veces me imaginaba que yo también era un pájaro como los que creía ver al otro lado de la bahía, y que podría volar hasta allí.

I think one reason why we didn't move away from each other was because if we had, that would have been an acknowledgment that we were touching in the first place.

La langue anglais fait la distinction entre deux types de nudité: alors que "nude" implique le recul, le regard qui cadre et met à distance, "naked" fait sentir toute la vulnérabilité d'un corps dévêtu, exposé, intime ou intimidé. (p.170)

Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance with impunity (see Hedges, 2000).

Grinning with delight even as my heart ached—a familiar bittersweet feeling, that of enjoying affection from afar—I watched until they all went inside, the cab and the barouche drove away, and it became apparent that the moment of drama was over.

From the distance came the deep resonant rumble of the jet's engines as it disappeared from their sight. In her euphoria, Joanna silently saluted the jet and thought that the very sound of movement was just one of the many things to which she belonged.

Do you think that you are the stars, perhaps? And that I am the moon? I thought you were the moon. But I have been absent, too, you know. I think I have been absent all this time.

We did not go out of each other's lives in a blaze of anger. We simply fell out of the habit of speaking. We lost our common language and so lost everything. There was nothing for us to say.

No matter where you go, however far away, a part of me will be with you and a part of you, with me, will stay But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

Hear "You are boring" as distant white laundry flapping in the breeze. Eventually

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

is measured; thus, the departure between the meridians of T and T' is the number of miles corresponding to the distance Tn in

Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are.

Time is a gypsy caravan Steals away in the night To leave you stranded in dreamland Distance is a long-range filter Memory a flickering light Left behind in the heartland

enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it.

The distance between rationality and advertising is now so wide that it is difficult to remember that there once existed a connection between them.