Quotes About Distance

Far away from non-existent landmarks; there are no more wars.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Six months isn't such a long time. That's how long it's been since I came to see you in May, but the fact is it's been much longer than that. We've spent years living inside each other.

the distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.

We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.

How she loved you, her bubeleh, her boychik, her darling, but there was something cloying in that love, something theatrical and selfish, and you knew it and, as soon as you were big enough, you kept her at a safe distance.

She's still in love with you," Violet said. "I know." "Or maybe she's in love with the idea of me on the other side of the country.

The attraction remains because there is something about him that I can't reach, something strange and estranging. I like seeing him from a distance. I know that. I like to see him in a room full of people when he looks like a stranger, and then to remember that I do know him and that I will be going home with him.

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

For when our hearts were far away, Your love went further still, yes Your love goes further still!

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

Where there is love, distance doesn't matter.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York... Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye, you lizard scum! Bye!

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

Love does not end when we don't see each other.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.