Unbridgeable Gap Quotes

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It's as if you have that pitch that only dogs can hear. Sometimes I feel I speak at such a pitch that very few people around me communicate with what I'm saying.

We are a divided nation in the worst sense of the word, and we don't hear the other side.

I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.

However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

We intend to remain alive. Our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves much room for compromise.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

I keep hoping that as time passes by, we’ll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it’s futile. There’s no going back.

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

If you characterize the political opposition as evil, there is no way you can compromise with them. There is no way that you can have a drink with them

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

Some people there's no getting over.

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.

The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.