PHRASES AND APHORISMS ABOUT DISTANCE AND REMOTENESS

Life very often leads us to have to stay away from people or things we love. For work reasons, we may be forced to leave the house and the place where we were born and raised, or, fate may decide that we have to get away from the person we love or closest friends for some time. Thus, the absence of our affections makes itself felt in various ways. Melancholy, nostalgia, "emptiness" are some of the symptoms of distance and distance. For example, we seem to see the image of who we would like next to us in front of the our eyes despite the fact that we are aware of the kilometers that separate us. Or, we feel incomplete, as if we are missing a piece of our own soul.

Many authors have written on the subject of distance and we have collected their most beautiful aphorisms, with a few sentences about distance in love but also that which is lived at the level of friendship. Being away from a loved one can make us understand how important it is to us, because before saying "I miss you" we should be able to appreciate their presence more often and say phrases like these:

Phrases and aphorisms about what distance is

What does distance consist of and what effects does it have on each person who experiences it? This issue has always fascinated and made us reflect. For some writers, distance is functional to meet again, to understand how much we care about something or someone we normally take for granted. For others, however, physical distance is nothing compared to mental distance: having in front of you a person whom we have now excluded or who has excluded us from his life, is nothing other than seeing only his image, without being able to really touch him. Here are some sentences that demonstrate how the meaning of distance is not unique, but that it takes on different meanings.

The distance that makes objects smaller for the eye, enlarges them for thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Distance sometimes lets you know what is worth keeping and what is worth letting go.
Lana Del Rey

Distance means so little when someone means so much.
Anonymous

Near is better than far but it is not yet there.
Stephen Sondheim

You are never far enough away to find each other.
Alessandro Baricco

The most beautiful phrases about love and distance

The theme of distance in love is certainly the one most dealt with by poets, novelists, philosophers and artists. Some of these great authors have highlighted the feeling of deep nostalgia and emptiness that one feels in the absence of the partner, while others have shown how the distance can be good for the two partners, becoming a sort of test for their relationship. . Anyone who has experienced it knows that being away from the person you love is a difficult challenge to face: his image constantly reappears before our eyes and we would just like to spend at least one day together. But perhaps, all this is nothing more than a demonstration of true love and these phrases confirm it.

It is in the separation that one feels and understands the strength with which one loves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Distance is the charm of love. Loving each other is difficult.
Corrado Alvaro

Love knows no distances; it has no continent; his eyes are the stars.
Gilbert Parker

My heart is close to you, even if my body is far away. If you cannot see it, all you have to do is go down into your heart and there you will find mine.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Sad is the man who loves things only when they go away.
Stefano Benni

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

And many nights they resist
Without a moon, without a star
So we will resist
When one of the two is away, far away.
Leonard Cohen

If two people are made for each other, they will end up finding each other, regardless of distance, time and even circumstances.
Nora Ephron

Love letters are nourished by distance.
Carlo Gragnani

Because even a sliver of distance between us is maddening.
Veronica Roth

Sometimes you have to stay away from the people you love, but it doesn't mean you love them less, sometimes that makes you love them even more.
Nicholas Sparks

I exist in two places, here and where you are.
Margaret Atwood

Very often, to be able to discover that we are in love, perhaps even to become one, the day of separation must arrive.
Marcel Proust

To love is to want to be close when you are far away, and closer when you are close.
Vinicius de Moraes

I realize, walking, that I still miss you. Our places no longer have names or adjectives. Some of your things touch me, I don't know when I don't know how, they show me that distance is not for us.
Giancarlo Stuttgart

Distance is only proof of how far love can travel.
Anonymous

Love builds a bridge between two shores. Distance remains.
Heinrich Wiesner

Phrases and quotes about friendship and distance

Just like with love, you can feel the distance even from your closest friends. Not being able to see them for a shorter or longer period can make us understand how important they are in our life. Writers and philosophers have largely deserted friendship, demonstrating as a true friend is a unique and precious asset for each person. In addition, they also focused on the aspect of distance between friends. Here are a few sentences on this topic:

Can material distance really separate us from friends?
Richard Bach

Distance and prolonged absence damage any friendship, even though it is so grudgingly admitted. The men we no longer see, even if they were our closest friends. they dry up, over the years, little by little until they become concepts.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A distant friend is sometimes closer than someone close at hand. Is it true or not that the mountain inspires more reverence and appears clearer to the traveler of the valley than to the inhabitant of its slopes?
Khalil Gibran

Friendship is one of the most beautiful feelings to live because it gives wealth, emotions, complicity and because it is absolutely free. Suddenly you see each other, you choose each other, you build a sort of intimacy; you can walk side by side and grow together even though along different roads, even though they are hundreds of thousands of kilometers apart, like the two of us.
Susanna Tamaro

Friendship: two strings in tune that vibrate together even if they are far apart. And if one of them is touched, the other also vibrates with the same music.
Fabrizio Caramagna

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
Isabel Allende

Phrases from the most beautiful songs about distance

Distance has always been a matter of reflection. Thus, several Italian and international singers have put him at the center of different songs, which mainly deal with the distance from the love point of view. The music becomes almost a way of the two lovers to come together through its notes and words, attenuating the feeling of the absence felt by both.

Out of sight,
far from the heart,
and you are far away,
far from me.
For one who comes back and brings you a rose,
a thousand have forgotten about you.
Sergio Endrigo

So, open your eyes and see
The way our horizons meet
And all the lights will guide us
In the night with me
Ed Sheeran

When you are not here
The pieces of my heart miss you
Avril Lavigne

Goodnight, goodnight little flower
Goodnight between the stars and the room
To dream of you I have to have you near
And still not close enough.
Francesco De Gregori

It doesn't matter how distant you are
It doesn't matter how long it takes
In time and in distance
I will wait.
Alicia Keys

I think about you before I sleep
Watching the sun make way for dusk
In this land away from home
Far from you who are my home.
Lorenzo Jovanotti

The infinite times that
You will come and look for me in my empty rooms
Inestimable
Your absence, which belongs to me, is elusive
Giorgia

The distance, you know, is like the wind
Put out small fires
But turn on the big ones, the big ones
Domenico Modugno