Quotes About Distance

As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants.

He walked right to her, his long strides eating the space between them and sucking the oxygen in front of her

I stroked your hair in a direction opposite to your journey

What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

Sleep in separate cities. Sleep in separate countries. Sleep on separate planets. Whisper to each other.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

He was always thinking of death, and this had so refined him that the physical seemed to fall away, freeing him from the pull of earth and enabling him to walk about some distance above its surface. Indeed he felt that even his distaste and hatred for the affairs of the world no longer stirred him deeply.

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.

A un cuore che tenti di avvicinarsi, il cuore dell'altro sembra lontano

Böse Absichten reisen nicht so weit wie gute. (S.37, Leuchtturmwärter)

Aunque la globalización e internet salvan la distancia entre países, amenazan con agrandar la brecha entre clases, y cuando parece que la humanidad está a punto de conseguir la unificación global, la propia especie podría dividirse en diferentes castas biológicas.

In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

Discs of umbrellas poured over suburban terraces with the smooth round ebullience of a Chopin waltz. They sat in the distance under the lugubrious dripping elms, elms like maps of Europe, elms frayed at the end like bits of chartreuse wool, elms heavy and bunchy as sour grapes.

All these soft, warm nights going to waste when I ought to be lying in your arms under the moon - the dearest arms in all the world - darling arms that I love to feel around me - How much longer - before they'll be there to stay? When I do get home again, you'll certainly have a most awful time ever moving me one inch from you.

Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.

Son, if you were any farther from fine you'd be in Nebraska.

Next year he would suggest they hire a chalet on the edge of an icy fjord in Norway, as far away from the Jacobs family as possible.

We have travelled a long distance from the cow with a bucket of raw milk under its udder. We are a long way from home.' This