Quotes About Distance

It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a shield of years.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Pon distancia y trata de mantener la sonrisa. Sintoniza un rock and roll en la radio y ve hacia toda la vida que existe con todo el valor que puedas reunir y toda la fe que logres invocar. Sé leal, sé valiente, aguanta. El resto es oscuridad.

The only difference between where you are and where you want to be is the number of steps you haven't taken yet.

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception.

The child I wasis just one breath away from me.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest.

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

"Away, away," says hate. "Closer, closer," says love.

And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.

Six thousand feet above men and time ...

Symbols are more than the basic units of culture; they are screening devices to distance us from our experiences. They classify and reduce, "to do away with," in Leakey and Lewin's remarkable phrase, "the otherwise almost intolerable burden of relating one experience to another.

Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.

The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love