Quotes About Distance

Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.

If you think that the distance from the Earth to the nearest planet where we could live comfortably... is being, like, from New York to Australia... what we've achieved so far, in going to the moon, that's about two-and-a-half inches. So that's the challenge.

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady... take your purse.'

I love New York. I'm taking English lessons there for the first time. I used to live in Tokyo, but I needed something new. I'm really close to my family. I miss them all the time, but we Skype a lot.

Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

It took a toll when I couldn't see my mom as much.

The sun is 91 million miles away; not too far, not too close. Be like that

You've been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.

I've never in my life had a problem giving another person what they want. But no one's ever been able to do that for me. No one touches me, no one gets near me. But now you've touched me somewhere so fucking deep I can't believe and I can't be that for you. Because I can't find you.

Tu me remplis la tête comme ne savent le faire que les absents

Still now I send letters into space Hoping that some mailman somewhere will track you down And recognise you from the descriptions in my poems That he will place the stack of them in your hands and tell you, There is a girl who still writes you, she doesn't know how not to

How strange, that when you are away, I reach for my cell phone's buzz as if it were your hand. Each shiver in my pocket, a way to find you.

Some nights, I wake up knowing he is anxious. He is across the world in another woman's arms and the years have spread us like dandelion seeds, sanding down the edges of our jigsaw parts that used to only fit each other

News of distant places was accepted on par with a thunderstorm seen off in the distance - a far-off disturbance that would blow over before it touched them.

No matter how she beseeched the stars for guidance, their light remained far awar and cold; they provided no answers and no comfort.

No matter how she beseeched the stars for guidance, their light remained far away and cold; they provided no answers and no comfort.

I used to avoid people when I was afraid I loved them too much.

How many miles had they come? Less than halfway, and already Caroline had the sense that a separation such as this could put more than miles between folks, could right this minute be working changes she might not be entirely conscious of and might never realize at all unless she and Eliza saw each other again.

I look up at the stars, serene and brilliant and out of reach.

Mildmay's anger was like a third person sitting between us-which was all the more unfortunate as there was barely room for two.

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

Listen to her the way you would listen to your own daughter if she died too young and tried to speak to you across long distances.

There was an abundance of sweetness. But I often felt I was observing it from a distance, rather than participating in the sweetness.