Quotes About Distance

When you're here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That's been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we've created so much distance from it.

Why should I be melancholy? England wasn't in sight yet.

Those who keep secrets from God keep their distance from God. Those who are honest with God draw near to God.

Ze was te ver van huis gegaan om nog terug te gaan.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.

For God's sake, don't hug me.

every seven miles, in America, there is at least one McDonald's. Not a hospital, mind you, or a police station, but a McDonald's, every seven miles. I mean, that's sort of scary, if you think about it.

I hate confrontations. It's so much easier to walk away than it is to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

Absolute value: the distance that a given number is from zero on a number line . . . always a positive

Transatlantic phone calls suck because I can hear the ocean swishing in the background and it makes me all nervous, like the fish are listening, or something.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell...Proximity without intimacy, he said.

Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception.

I want to kiss you so bad. But There's nothing here. You're not really here, are you? -Bliss

If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man.

When we don't get close to people, at least we know what to expect: nothing.

I felt that her tears would trickle out of the telephone and on to my hands.

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

My father had been from Glasgow; my mother, from Los Angeles. They had both enjoyed the quip that the difference between an American and a European was that to an American, a hundred years was a long time, and to a European, a hundred miles is a big journey.

To get back to the original subject, most dragons prefer to be friends at a distance. Occasionally meet where the edges of our territories join—that sort of thing. Chat, exchange news, perhaps play a round of the riddle game, then go our separate ways.

The Long Way Home Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other? Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?

Thinking is a search for siblings. Yet if thinking is a search for siblings, it also depends on finding the right distance – Abstand – from these siblings.