Quotes About Distance

This is the way it is with me, always looking in or looking out, a chilly pane of glass between me and a remote and longed-for world.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum.

Their space has absolutely nothing in common with that of a stage. When experts pretend that they can see here 'the beginnings of perspective', they are falling into a deep, anachronistic trap. Pictorial systems of perspective are architectural and urban – depending upon the window and the door. Nomadic 'perspective' is about coexistence, not about distance.

In the imaginative movement which prompts the impulse to draw repeats implicitly the same pattern...there is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and a au-revoir! Alternately and at infinitum.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Because of the great distance between us and his heavenly glory, he himself came down to us through the Word. This

the more of us there are, the more distant from each other we become. We're practically livin' on top of each other but we're further away from each other in every other way than we've ever been before.

He had, in truth, been losing her for a very long time.

but David did not want to mix with them, and they in turn saw something sad and distant in him that kept them away.

It seemed, in those days, that the more the angels had to ride on, and talk over distances with, and get together by, the more separate they became. The more they made the world smaller, the greater the distances between them.

I was proud of this small insight; I had no notion how close I was to the truth, and therefore I was as far away as ever.

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?

He looked off into the distance with narrowed eyes. Man of action, seeing things no one else does. "Let's just say we had indications…" and he let it dangle in the air, as if mystery were the ultimate justification.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.