Quotes About Distance

Your country becomes funnier the further you are from it. I remember seeing Boris Johnson on the news when I was in Hong Kong, and he looked so much more ridiculous.

America is very far away from Korea, so we were very impressed that people knew K-pop, let alone liked it!

My heart has jet lag.

people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.

How would it feel, if you cared for such a person, to watch his complete retreat? To see him day in and out, yet never converse again? To know that he could speak to you if he chose to, but won't?

It's hard to talk to you when I'm touching you.

There are people I stand near a single time and skirt forevermore.

Sometimes I feel like I'm looking at someone else," he said. "Sometimes it seems like I'm getting further away

Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long.

I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish that I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

As dizzy as the stars, as near and alone.

People think of the green pastoral when they think of lovers in nature. Those English poets used the vales and streams to douse their lusts into verse. But the desert offers something that no forest brook or valley ever can: distance. A cloudless rooming house for couples. Skies that will host any visitors' dreams with the bald hospitality of pure space.

But the desert offers something that no forest, brook or valley ever can: distance. A cloudless rooming house for couples. Skies that will host any visitors' dreams with the bald hospitality of pure space.

Do you ever feel like you're not even friends with sme of your friends?

London. For some reason the word didn't seem to have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had.

It's not always the distance of a trip that determines its value. Sometimes the best trips are only as far as the circumference of your heart.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and tell me if it isn't so.

fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women...

They stared at each other, their words between them like a wall.

Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.

Pas a pas se va luenh.

Usually her reserve kept people -- men especially -- at a distance, but Sam was different. She felt at ease with him, comfortable. More herself. How was it possible to be more yourself when you were with another person?