Quotes About Distance

There is no real communication with those we love most

It is beautiful when it rains far away in the distance, the bright sun shining on the mound on which you stand, and only a few guerilla drops heralding the approach of the shower towards you.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

To worship means to feel distance. But God is not distant.

It] was approached from a distance and gingerly, held at arm's length by outsiders who clearly lacked any sense of fondness for or participation in the forms they were studying.

The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

not be friends of

He looked at them curiously, as if he had not seen them before, and felt very distant from them and very close to them.

But we were never really - together. Even when we made love.

He stood looking at her for a long time. He felt a distant pity and reluctant friendship and familiar respect; and he felt also a weary sadness, for he knew that no longer could the sight of her bring upon him the agony of desire that he had once known, and knew that he would never again be moved as he had once been moved by her presence. The sadness lessened, and he covered her gently, turned out the light, and got in bed beside her.

We really haven't known each other very well these last few years, have we?" She looked away and said uncomfortably, "Well—I suppose not.

Though they got along well enough together, they had not become close friends; they had no confidences and seldom saw each other outside their weekly gatherings.

Far away in South Kensington Mrs

And it seemed that my ping-pong ball could not touch his right now. We are alone in these things that we suffer.

Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.

The lifers who, even seven states away, are the porches where we land.

It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that I am with you. Always. Forever. We don't have to be separated by the sun, school, or even the night. Now I'm just a click away." ~Alexander

A city one loves exists at no matter what distance, and its symphony is sometimes heard more clearly when one is away, as the music of an orchestra is more lucid to an audience that it sounds to the performers on the stage.

Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.

i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow

In the near distance he could hear the trundling sound of carriage wheels starting down the gravel drive.

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.