Quotes About Distance

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket. The average distance our meat travels hovers arounf fifteen hundred miles.

And was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose.

They lay in silence, thinking their own thoughts, each trying to know the other's. They were becoming strangers on top of each other.

They had never seen one another from afar. They had never known the deepest intimacy, that closeness attainable only with distance

Everything was incredibly far away from me.

SvÄ›t je tak veliký a tak malý, v jediné chvíli jsme byli blízko i daleko.

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach

Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. But I also became a little heavier, because I was getting farther from Mom.

Their relationship was defined not by what they could share, but what they couldn't. Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.

Entre dos seres existe siempre una distancia singular, infranqueable, un santuario impenetrable. Unas veces adquiere forma de soledad. Otras, de amor

Can the familiarity of the animals we have come to know as companions be a guide to us as we think about the animals we eat? Just how distant are fish (or cows, pigs, or chickens) from us in the scheme of life? Is it a chasm or a tree that defines the distance? Are nearness and distance even relevant? If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

Isaac was buried in a pocketless shroud, six hundred yards from his wife of two hundred thousand hours.

The average distance our meat travels hovers around fifteen hundred miles. That's like me driving from Brooklyn to the Texas Panhandle for lunch.

Wat is er mis met dat verlangen en dat nodig hebben? Niets. En de gapende afstand tussen de plek waar je bent en je oorspronkelijke voorstelling hoeft niet per definitie mislukking in te houden. Teleurstelling hoeft niet teleurstellend te zijn. Het verlangen, het nodig hebben, de afstand, de teleurstelling: groeien, weten, toewijden, naast elkaar oud worden. Je kunt heel goed alleen leven, maar niet een leven lang.

So much sublimation: domestic closeness had become intimate distance, intimate distance had become shame, shame had become resignation, resignation had become fear, fear had become resentment, resentment had become self-protection.

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

My name is someone & anyone. I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived two thousand five hundred years ago, how could we not be moved to know that they made verses, were spectators of the world, that they sheltered in light, lasting words something of their ponderous, fleeting life, words that fulfill a long destiny?

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Being with you, and not being with you, is the only way I have to measure time.

Nada me dolía tanto como pensar que paralelamente a mi vida Beatriz iría viviendo la suya, minuto por minuto y noche por noche.

Lejos un trino. El ruiseñor no sabe que te consuela.

Vivió en la soledad, sin una mujer, sin amigos; todo lo amó y lo poseyó, pero desde lejos, como del otro lado de un cristal; murió, y su tenue imagen se perdió, como el agua en el agua