Quotes About Distance

I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

I reached for Jack's hand. It was cold. But then, so was mine.

How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.

And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.

So even the transatlantic static couldn´t mask the lifeless quality of his words.

It felt like he´d taken a piece of her heart with him in his carry-on luggage

one's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's distance from the scene of conflict.

maybe moths don't think lightbulbs are the moon. Maybe they found out how far away the moon is, and simply chose suicide instead of failure. Wouldn't you?

Rarely did I think our work suffered because we were working remotely. But I did have times where I thought our work would be even better if we were in the same place and time more often.

If I started a rock band or a company, I'd want to share the same physical space often. The upsides outweigh the downsides. However, if the people I wanted to work with were only available remotely, I'm confident we could do great work from thousands of miles away.

I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Because part of it is running on automatic. Hearing little whispers from far away.

Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of language to map a life, to overcome a distance, to focus attention on what matters most.

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered the distance...

To work, her dumb lunge says, is to move a certain mass ...through a certain distance, is to pull your weight and feel exact and equal to it. Feel dragged upon. And buoyant.

I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.