Quotes About Distance

This idea of a black, hidden horror connected with incalculable gulfs of some sort of distance was oddly widespread and persistent.

But the Internet has spoiled everything—my family is able to get hold of me whenever they like. They might as well live nearby.

It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

His being had rested full of adoration for the glory which unifies all distances in such beauty and sorrow that one no longer wishes for anything–in unconquerable adversity, in unquenchable longing he felt that life had nevertheless been worth while living.

Somewhere, out in the infinite distance, lay the spring, at least in God's mind, like babies that are not yet conceived in the mother's womb. (from The Fish can Sing)

But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country

YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU.

Sé que el amor es un trabajo sucio; tienes que mancharte las manos. Si te mantienes a distancia, no sucede nada interesante. Además, debes encontrar la distancia adecuada entre las personas. Si están demasiado cerca, te aplastan; si están demasiado lejos, te abandonan. ¿Cómo mantenerlos en la situación adecuada?

Find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

Space. Jack said he needed space. And that was all wrong. Never mind that "needing space" was one of those lame, cloying, namby-pamby, New Age we-are-the-world terms that was worse than meaningless—"needing space"—a terrible euphemism for "I'm soooo outta here.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

I was still in touch with Hef - and then we kind of lost contact.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.

Even when someone introduced the women as someone's daughter or wife, they maintained a distance. With the advent of selfies, people now want to click with all the touching, coming so close.

I think one of the toughest things is that balancing act of trying to maintain relationships while being on the road.

When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them.

When you're on tour, you really don't get to hang out with and spend the holidays with your family and friends. And there isn't usually much of a break in between performance dates.

My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

The hardest part about touring is being away from family and friends. When you're gone for a long time, it's especially hard for me to remember to keep in touch with certain people because there's so much going on on the road.

I've had the worst relationships because with touring it's impossible.

The crazy thing is, the last club I ever learned to hit was my driver. My brother and I ended up being known for our distance, but we had no idea how far we could hit the ball because we hit it the same, and all of a sudden, we're going to tournaments, and we're driving the par-4s. At 10 years old, I was hitting it, like, 240.

It used to be that a lot of the ranking tournaments were in Britain so British players could just drive an hour up the road and be there. I've had to travel from the other side of the world to play and live in the U.K.