Quotes About Distance

You might have to spread-eagle while a guard slides a wand up your crotch, you may have an elbow in your ribs and a seatback in your chin, but long-distance lovers get to see each other, and if your mother gets sick you can be there the next day.

Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

There may be times when you just have to love people from a distance.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

Two people may have one sensitivity, one action, one reaction and one feeling; it doesn't matter how much time and distance they have between themselves-that is the state of ultimate love.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.