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Quotes About Distance

The past lay between them, a stagnant flood of unspoken words and unexpressed feelings.
~ Storm Constantine
As Ishtahar is kept from me, so are you, in a different kind of way.
~ Storm Constantine
He felt the sounds of life would not reach this far down, but the sounds of death would.
~ Storm Constantine
A wall had come between them, a soft wall of Ellony. How could it hurt this much?
~ Storm Constantine
She seemed to become more aloof, almost secretive. At times, her eyes would shine with a private passion. She would gaze off into the distance and her lips would drop open, very slightly.
~ Storm Constantine
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
~ Sue Grafton
Though weeks, even months, have at times gone by without contact, when we were separated by distance and occupied with busy lives and raising families, the thread of connection had continued true and deep, allowing us to pick up where we left off, as if there had been no time lost. Time had never been a part of the equation.
~ Sue Henry
My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn't fit in with my Life Plan.
~ Sue Townsend
This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back.
~ Suketu Mehta
I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.
~ Sully Erna
In some far off place, many light years in space, I'll wait for you. Where human feet have never trod, where human eyes have never seen. I'll build a world of abstract dreams and wait for you.
~ Sun Ra
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
~ Sun Tzu
God and I aren't exactly on speaking terms these days.
~ Susan Carol McCarthy
Like in 'Eastenders' they can write coronavirus into the scripts, so people can actually be socially distancing. But if you're in a sketch show where you're on top of each other, doing stupid things, you can't really make it work.
~ Natasia Demetriou
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
~ James Reston
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.
~ Jim Barksdale
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
~ Regina Spektor
From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.
~ Peter Pace
The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.
~ Isabel Allende
The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
~ Greg Boyle
The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Please." It's one word, but the way I say it means so much more. Please don't say anything. Please don't look at me. Please don't hurt me. Please just stay away. Please.
~ Carey Heywood, Him
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE DAY THAT WE GREW APART
~ Chris Brown
The longeswt love, is the love that cant be!
~ Karsten Andersen