Quotes About Distance

I don't like to touch, and I don't like to be touched.

To diagnose a system or yourself while in the midst of action requires the ability to achieve some distance from those on-the-ground events. We use the metaphor of "getting on the balcony" above the "dance floor" to depict what it means to gain the distanced perspective you need to see what is really happening.

Holding ten cathedrals at arm's-length must have been terribly tiring.

True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.

Os dois gigantes da literatura passariam a vida próximos um ao outro, mas jamais se encontrariam nem pessoal nem ideologicamente.

He doesn't communicate with us; he's put up an impenetrable wall that excludes us from his life.

It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.

I wondered if this was a thing regular mothers felt looking at their daughters from a distance, finding them perilous in their magnetic beauty, which makes no distinction in which screws and nuts it attracts.

Earth and sky touch everywhere and nowhere, like sex between two strangers. There is no definition and no union for sure. (The Antelope Wife)

Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.

there was a fold between them—a wrinkle in their relationship, in their universe—and it was big, and came between them.

Things are really fucked up right now. We hardly see each other anymore and when we do, we go to sleep on opposite sides of the bed

When the moon rises tonight, think of me and I'll think of you.

Ed ecco perché lui se ne stava tutto il giorno in campagna. Solo, tra gli alberi e con la distesa sterminata del mare sotto gli occhi, come da un'infinita lontananza, nel fruscio lungo e lieve di quegli alberi, nel borboglio cupo e lento di quel mare s'era abituato a sentire la vanità di tutto e il tedio angoscioso della vita.

Always I thougt that I would know brother, regardles the years that past, but like the ocean he would not know me

What?" Richard demanded. John merely shook his head and smiled. "She rides very well." "What?" Richard turned to see his horse's rump now far in the distance. "Damn that woman!

Things like this—love-relationships—need a certain minimum of proximity to keep them going.

Bastien noticed that the two women hugged and touched and patted a lot. It was nice in one way, warm and affectionate, but he also felt a pinch of jealousy, wishing he was the recipient of some of those hugs, pats and touches. But Terri had been keeping her distance since Kate and Lucern had arrived. She'd even been avoiding eye contact, and that troubled him. He wanted to put his arm around her and claim her as his own. She didn't seem to feel the same.

As estrelas são ainda menos lindas que os seus olhos, e afinal nem sei mesmo o que elas sejam; Deus, que as pôs tão alto, é porque não poderão ser vistas de perto, sem perder muito da formosura... Mas os seus olhos, não; estão aqui, ao pé de mim, grandes, luminosos, mais luminosos que o céu...

E ambos pararam a distância, tomados daquele desejo de conhecer a vida alheia, que é muita vez toda a necessidade humana

Invadiu-o então uma coisa a que podemos chamar nostalgia de do exílio. (A Parasita Azul)

In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

I'll be down at the foot of the road at seven o'clock. The high-school bus covers so much distance and makes so many stops it takes an hour and a half, and I get on at one of the first stops.

Suddenly it was all very clear to Vanessa that all that mattered was that she get out of this place, far away from this lonely, obsessive woman.