Quotes About Distance

Dear Elliot, I know. When will I see you again? Yours, Kai

even though I couldn't have him or touch him or talk to him or even look into his eyes. I needed his presence. I needed him close by. I

Honey, have you seen your sister?" She's on Jupiter, Mom.

I had Wayne as a guest on the show once. He may not remember, because I'm not sure he ever saw me. His eyes and consciousness seem to bypass you somehow, and focus somewhere in an undefined middle distance. The words sound memorized; he has an affect that might best be described as "nobody home.

J'ai reconnu très précisément ce que j'ai vécu à ce moment-là en lisant les livres qu'Annie Ernaux a consacrés à ses parents et à la « distance de classe » qui la séparait d'eux.

Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.

Ma tu - adesso ci penso - sei troppo lontana, centinaia e centinaia di chilometri difficili a valicare. Tu sei dentro a una vita che ignoro, e gli altri uomini ti sono accanto, a cui probabilmente sorridi, come a me nei tempi passati. Ed è bastato poco tempo perché ti dimenticassi di me. Probabilmente non riesci più a ricordare il mio nome. Io sono ormai uscito da te, confuso fra le innumerevoli ombre. Eppure non so pensare che a te, e mi piace dirti queste cose.

In questo caso il ricordo di lui mi ritornava, allora mi fermavo e nel silenzio della notte a voce alta chiedevo: Dormi? Ma lui non rispondeva. Effettivamente dormiva, però lontano, sotto le crode, in un cimitero di montagna, e con gli anni nessuno si ricordava più di lui, nessuno gli portava fiori.

deu-se conta de que os homens, ainda que possam se querer bem, permanecem sempre distantes;

Difficile è credere in una cosa quando si è soli, e non se ne può parlare con alcuno. Proprio in quel tempo Drogo si accorse come gli uomini, per quanto possano volersi bene, rimangano sempre lontani; che se uno soffre, il dolore è completamente suo, nessun altro può prenderne su di sé una minima parte; che se uno soffre, gli altri per questo non sentono male, anche se l'amore è grande, e questo provoca la solitudine della vita.

They go far back in our lost distance where what we never had stands waiting; it was inevitable that we should come upon them, for our miscalculated longing has created them.

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater.

I don't get here much. Message me if you really want a response.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

À distância, um relâmpago. Conto — um, dois, três, quatro — e o trovão ressoa.

I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't.