Quotes About Distance

Pero era un sueño. Estábamos envueltos en algodón, en hilos de seda, en telas de araña, en musgo, en niebla, en el mar, en el sabor de una distancia que ha de aniquilarse-

In America the vast spaces accentuate the vast spaces between people, deserts which stretch between human beings. It is a void which has to be spanned by the automobile. It takes an hour to reach a movie, two hours to reach a friend. So the coyotes howl and wail at the awful emptiness of mountains, deserts, hills.

everywhere i miss you.

Anaïs:] Your two letters on cellophane just arrived—of the 7th. Don't even sign your name now. No mention of my name. Not a word of love. If I hadn't received your cable I would be stark crazy by now.

Strange that when we finally fly, the separation from the past seems easier to achieve. Height and distance from the earth seem to stabilize the spirit, to liberate it from its sorrow. We enter the consciousness of the cosmos.

I wonder if the life I am leading is a dream or a reality. I feel far away from everything and everybody.

She would have liked to be like him, near to everyone, anyone, but she could not. It saddened her.

I have been scarcely been able to pray since I have been here: I have the childish feeling that God is no longer in the same place.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

In that light, across the field, is all I will never have. Next to me is all I will.

Me dirijo a casa de mi MADRE, a la que no veo desde hace un siglo y que ha envejecido tan vertiginosamente que no me doy cuenta del tiempo: el tiempo que un hombre debe percibir y controlar si no quiere que su vida pase volando de una forma injusta e impetuosa.

It is almost another kind of love, being loved. It is the same heat but from another room; it is the same sound but from a high window...

years; they had exchanged just one letter, one glance in

Technology is in its proper place when it helps us bond with the real people we have been given to love. It's out of its proper place when we end up bonding with people at a distance, like celebrities, whom we will never meet.

Voltage crossed the distance between Sheila and Webster. A current composed of anger and remorse and something else-the last flicker of attraction

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

I sometimes think the stronger you feel about someone, the harder it is to picture their face when you are away from them.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

he occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He no longer represented someday, a possibility. He represented a road not taken, a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see where it went anymore.

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

Tú seguirás tu camino, sé que lo harás. Y yo me pasaré toda la vida sin tenerte.