Quotes About Distance

First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us.

There is some truth in that. Absence feeds affection.

Era como si realizáramos una de esas complicadas danzas cortesanas modeganas en que las parejas se sitúan a escasos centímetros uno del otro, pero (si son buenos bailarines) sin llegar a tocarse. Así llevábamos la conversación, pero no solo nos faltaba el tacto para guiarnos: también parecíamos sordos. De modo que danzábamos con mucho cuidado, sin saber exactamente qué música escuchaba el otro, sin saber siquiera si el otro estaba bailando.

This meant in terms of social standing the baronet was so high above me that if he were a star, I would not be able to see him with the naked eye.

We're being followed," I said, not bothering to whisper it. They were at least seventy feet behind us,

You would think that would have helped. That a gift and clasped hands would make things right between us. But the silence was back now, stronger than before. Thick enough that you could spread it on your bread and eat it. There are some silences that even words cannot drive away. And while Denna was touching my hand, she wasn't holding it. There is a world of difference.

I have been alone for most of my life. But rarely have I felt it so much as at that moment. I knew one person within four hundred miles, and he'd been ordered to keep away from me. I was unfamiliar with the culture, barely competent with the language, and the burning all across my back and face was a constant reminder of how much I was unwelcome. The food was good though.

El sueño nos ofrece un refugio del mundo y de todo su dolor. El sueño marca el paso del tiempo y nos proporciona distancia de las cosas que nos han hecho daño.

ever farther from human beings, driving him on ever more insistently toward the magnetic pole of the greatest possible solitude.

he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.

There are moments when the eyes flow into each other. Then the souls are wrapped around each other across a distance

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

But suddenly, after all this time, I feel there is something to say, and if I don't quickly write it down, my head will burst. It doesn't matter if you read it. It doesn't even matter if I send it - assuming that could be done. Perhaps it comes down to this. I am writing to you because you know nothing. Because you are far away from me and know nothing.

Conoce a tu enemigo y no te acerques a él

Hiç kimse bir ba?kas?n?n s?n?r?ndan içeri giremez, nedeni de basittir: Hiç kimse kendine ula?amaz da ondan.

Even before his death he had been absent, and long ago the people closest to him had learned to accept this absence, to treat it as the fundamental quality of his being.

No es que no pensara más en él, sino que parecía interesarse más por su recuerdo que por continuar en contacto

More often than not, what stirs the imagination is best kept in the imagination, and Gwyn is aware of that, she is wise enough to know that the distance between thought and deed can be enormous, a gulf as large as the world itself.

I know, I know and you know, we knew, we did not know, we were there, after all, and not there and at times when only the void stood between us we got all the way to each other.

What threw us together, scare-scatters, a worldstone, sun-distant, hums.

The Lord, like every woman I have ever known, was cold and distant.

Contrary to an assumption that arose in the nineteenth century, objectivity is not necessarily more available to those who stand at a greater distance from the events and personalities they are treating. Certain historical events and movements (and there are many) become more controversial as they recede temporally because they engage partisan passions more intensely as we move away from them.