Quotes About Distance

The covers of this book are too far apart.

it's an all- day trip—twenty miles

In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don't be far from me, and also don't come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don't unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don't allow me hearing your voice

Umutsuzlukta hakli cikacagimiza, umutta yanilalim. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta

Toplum yasalari yercekimi yasalarina benzemez, insan genellikle asagi dogru degil, yukari dogru duser. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta

Tant que j'étais là-bas, je me sentais incapable de partir. Maintenant que je suis loin, je me sens totalement incapable de revenir. Je suis comme le rescapé d'un naufrage. J'avais du mal à sauter du navire qui prenait l'eau, mais maintenant que je n'y suis plus, il ne me viendrait pas à l'esprit de remonter à son bord.

il est des relations d'amour qui fonctionnent ainsi, sur le mode du manque et de l'éloignement. Tant qu'on est ailleurs, on peut maudire la séparation et vivre dans l'idée qu'il suffirait de se rejoindre. Une fois sur place, les yeux se dessillent : la distance préservait encore l'amour, si l'on abolit la distance on prend le risque d'abolir l'amour. »

heureuse l'eau que nul ne boit. Bienheureux l'arbre qui fleurit loin des rout.

Il est des relations d'amour qui fonctionnent ainsi, sur le mode du manque et de l'éloignement. Tant qu'on est ailleurs, on peut maudire la séparation et vivre dans l'idée qu'il suffirait de se rejoindre. Une fois sur place, les yeux se dessillent: la distance préservait encore l'amour, si l'on abolit la distance on prend le risque d'abolir l'amour.

I ... take a selfie with him; two, to be safe. My lips are parted, as if I'm poking a dead thing to see if it'll come to life; it's the phone I'm attempting to keep at a distance. He's smiling faintly, as if amuse by some exotic piece of wildlife.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the distance where eternity arises.

We argue, but we never change each other's minds. We only get farther apart.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Il passato è come una candela posta a una distanza inadeguata: troppo vicina per renderti quieto, troppo lontana per confortarti.

Salt water is the greatest component of our world, yet some people never see an ocean. That doesn't change the ocean. It is constant and powerful, and like the love of God, whether we're immersed in it, standing on the shore, or a thousand miles away, it remains.

Later he would counsel parents to allow their children to act out their feelings through puppets, as a way to bring some distance between the children and their difficult emotions.

I just learned the German word fernweh, sort of a cousin to wanderlust; it means "far-sickness, an ache for distance." Penny

it winds up in the Pacific Ocean, but when we piss out our coffee at my folks' place, it ends up in the Atlantic one.

Bumfuck Nowhere and Left Ass Cheek of Yemen.

And for a moment, Jeremy thought he was at the far end of a dark tunnel, and Aiden was the light at the end of it.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against The want of you; Of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Tenía los ojos tan azules como jamás se habían visto en aquel reino. Y, por estar este muy alejado del mar y soñar sus habitantes en él, le pusieron el nombre de Azul. Y es así como, con el nombre de Príncipe Azul, ha permanecido en la leyenda. En esta y en otras muchas.