Quotes About Distance

When automation distances us from our work, when it gets between us and the world, it erases the artistry from our lives.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Watching in dumb show and from a distance made the whole thing look like some strange strange puppet performance, utterly divorced from me and my life.

Her mother couldn't read. Her mother hadn't noticed the signs of a bad winter. Cian wasn't even there. Hereswith was far away, and Fursey. She had taken a double risk and there was no one to help her.

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.

Population growth disquiets the demographer only when he fears that it will impede economic progress or make it harder to feed the masses. But that man needs solitude, that human proliferation produces cruel societies, that distance is required between men so that the spirit might breathe, does not interest him. The quality of man does not matter to him.

I cannot get close to any you.

Did you really love her? Did you really enter her heart and mind? Or did the two of you always remain outside each other?

But the future is unknown, and stands before a man like autumnal fogs rising from the swamps; birds fly foolishly up and down in it with flapping wings, never recognizing each other, the dove seeing not the vulture, nor the vulture the dove, and no one knowing how far he may be flying from destruction.

All this has for me an indescribable charm, perhaps because I no longer see it, and because anything from which we are separated is pleasing to us.

I have a disdain," he says, "for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use, and I'm suspicious when the distance between the raw data and the final conclusion is too long. It gives you plenty of opportunity to massage that data, and human beings are notoriously susceptible to self-deception, whether scientists or not." Ramachandran

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

What I was suddenly afraid of was our perihelion, the closest we would ever approach or be, and that everything after this would transpire between bodies farther apart. I was thinking that if you looked back over the trajectory of every mating once it was over, there would be an identifiable perihelion.

Herkesin istedi?i gibi ya?ad??? uzak ülkenin özlemini duyuyorum.

Belki de -dedi?in gibi- biz art?k bir yan?m?zla onlardan uzaktay?z. Bunu, onlara hiçbir zaman belli etmeyece?iz. Yolumuza ç?kan herkese sayg? gösterece?im. B?rakal?m bunlar? art?k, Olric

Beni pek sevmezlerdi. Fakat, cahil olduklar? için, korkuyla.kar???k bir sayg? beslerlerdi bana. Sözlerimi hiç anlamazlard?; fakat gene de ba?lar?n? sallarlard? durmadan. Ben de ayaklar?m? uzat?r, üstünlü?ümün verdi?i gururla rahat ederdim bu evde. Y?llard?r da, rahat etmek istemedi?im için çok seyrek u?ruyordum onlara.

N'aurions-nous pu nous aimer, aussi bien, elle chez elle, moi chez moi ; éviter les froissements possibles de cette situation qu'on appelle d'un mot ignoble : le collage ?…

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

old Aunt Mary." Who at last had drifted the final distance to her reward. She had lived over eighty years—had come over from Africa, people said.

It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.

People are always far away.

Sometimes I can't sleep because I miss you all so much. And sometimes I don't think about you at all.

The first thing every neophyte fight must understand is that God, whatever he is, has nothing in common with humankind, and that he remains so far away as to be completely inaccessible to the human senses. The same is true of his intentions. At no point will people ever learn what he is up to.