Quotes About Distance

maybe we just keep missing each other

Distance is all I can give someone I can't truly fathom.

Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now. But as we know, in this city anything is possible

And it seemed to me that I was closer to him during those early months of his absence than at any other time of my life.

What does the pilgrim hope for at journey's end? Her beliefs confirmed? Revelation? Or does she secretly wish that the destination never quite materializes, that it keeps receding, ever shrouded in the distance, all the more to feed an inextinguishable devotion?

I've read the dying feel no pain but sense everything that goes on around them. They view the scene from a brief distance above and no matter who they are or how old, they gain a wisdom from that last vista. But we are the living, remaining on the ground, and what we know is the narrow and the unbroken. Here, we are strewn about in in the lengthy expanse of an archipelago, too far to call one another, too far to see.

She won't win, Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate--everything I might have hoped would be reassuring. You're sure? I asked. Yes, my lover. I'm sure. But you're not here, I observed, and I hung up very gently. He didn't call back.

The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work.

Messi is the best player in history and the best in the world by a distance.

Sometimes I'd have breakfast in Guatemala and go to sleep in Mexico.

I was playing for 12 years in Europe. It's a long time you know. When you are from Mexico you miss your family, you miss your friends.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

My loyalty to my father had increased in proportion to the miles between us.

I've never lived in Los Angeles. I've always lived 30 miles away in Long Beach.

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.

Someone can be miles away, but if they're in your heart, that means they're locked in your head, too.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

People ask how far I've gone in life. About 20 miles.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.