Quotes About Distance

Cuando decía «abuela» no era una palabra recitada, era un grito que le venía de dentro y desde lejos.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

I will never know you, nothing about you, what has died inside you, what has lived invisibly. I am elsewhere now.

È una cosa strana. Quando ti accade di vedere il posto dove saresti salvo, sei sempre lì che lo guardi da fuori. Non ci sei mai dentro. È il tuo posto, ma tu non ci sei mai.

Nella luce delle due ultime lapandine, lo studio era già una sacca nera, mantenuta in vita da due pupille di luce. Quando rimase l'ultima, era un sussurro. La guardavano da lontano, senza avvicinarsi, come per non sporcarla.

Ako nekog zaista voliš, ali zaista, ne mora da zna?i da je najbolje da s njim živiš.

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

steamships insult the dignity of distance

Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.

i cuori degli uomini che sono molto lontani dal loro Paese sono pieni di tristezze.

sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away.

I'm very glad that Matthew phoned," he said. "I've been out of touch, you know. It's like that out here. You get caught up in your own life and you forget about family back home.

No sailor could be lonelier than a man standing in the middle of our land, with the miles and miles of blue about him.

Always and everywhere one vision, One customary, single mission, One customary, single grief. Not cooling distance's relief...

It was a strange thing: one never appeared to take a step forward int he heart or mind of this man. Those who wished, so to speak, to force their way into intimacy with him found the path blocked.

the distance fills and nearness is a void

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.

Time together is so much more pleasant for the time apart.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

No one outside of our family unit would ever guess that away from prying eyes, we were systematically tearing ourselves apart. Away from the outside world, everyone in our family started to fall to pieces, and never really recovered. Even though our times together are always fun and laughter-filled, the closeness we once shared is gone. In its place is guilt, regret, the ability to say the nastiest things and, for the longest minute on earth, mean every word of them

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

And social media makes this worse, doesn't it?" said Paige. "Much worse. Because it provides a bubble, an echo chamber. And it provides distance and anonymity, so people can be as vicious as they want, and never have to look their opponent in the eye. They never see them as loving parents or thoughtful neighbors, just as unseen members of a nebulous other.