Quotes About Distance

The telegraph may have made the country into "one neighborhood," but it was a peculiar one, populated by strangers who knew nothing but the most superficial facts about each other.

when we were strangers, I liked you from afar when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart

good from far but far from good as the saying goes

I've never worked on quantum entanglement, which Einstein once dismissed as "spooky action at a distance." It's a real phenomenon, though, one that has less to do with communication than with a shared history that causes a pair of particles, even once they've been permanently separated, to behave as if they knew what each other was thinking.

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls...

Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.

In my language there is a saying: "Ndiwelimilambo enamagama" (I have crossed famous rivers). It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it.

Niente può essere più lontano dalla verità.

It had been twenty-one years since I had even touched my wife's hand.

The light that remained was of the clear gray quality that reminds one that the sky is not a blanket of blue benevolently spread over the earth but only the beginning of cold and impossible distances

Distance, as it is cognized by your objective senses, does not exist for the subjective mind. "If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me." Time and space are conditions of thought; and the imagination can transcend them and move in a psychological time and space.

No. He'll remain here. But - but - you sometimes get a feeling you're going away from someone forever...

By shifting his gaze slightly, he saw frame in the sitting room window, a landscape aloof from man. Its beauty was perfectly articulate yet utterly remote. Against his will he was moved by it as an unmusical listener may be profoundly disturbed by sound forms that he is unable to comprehend.

Stephen did not intend to go to the concert, not because he disapproved or wanted to distance himself from the notion of such music in a place like west Clare, but because there would be people there.

Ensamhet sprider sig också mellan grannar, så att tio extra dagar med ensamhetskänslor leder till två extra dagar för personen på andra sidan staketet. Grannar och vänner som bor mer än en och en halv kilometer bort överför däremot inte ensamhetskänslor till varandra.

To the British frigates, shadowing them now at a distance of half a gunshot,

they looked 'like a well-lit-up street', nine miles long.

all the way down to Corunna, and from Cadiz to the Italian border.

It would take the fleets all day just to catch sight of each other, let alone come to quarters

raking the length of the Spanish ship from a distance of only a few yards.

running his dividers across a map of the Atlantic and calculating how many leagues his ships could cover each day.

Almost a mile to the north, the Victory was still short of the enemy line,

The Victory was still about 1,000 yards from the enemy, not yet in proper range.

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