Quotes About Distance

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

It's relatively easy, you know, when you don't see someone. To kid yourself that you really don't love them any more.

There ought to be a great Distance between Raillery and Satire, so that one may never be mistaken for the other: Raillery ought indeed to surprise, and sensibly touch, those to whom it is directed; but I would not have the Wounds it makes, either deep or lasting: Let those who feel it, be hurt like Persons, who, gathering Roses, are pricked by the Thorns, and find a sweet smell to make amends.

The truth is I never knew him well—only well enough to know that I didn't wish to know him better. •

Death doesn't take away the impact they made on our lives or their importance to God. To be gone from here is to be present in glory. It doesn't feel like it now, but I assure you each day will get a little easier. Each week will add more distance from the pain.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.

them. I looked at the place I'd come from and the place I was going, the two equidistant from me. I was too far from either, so I forced my way forward.

Sometimes those we forgive continue being the jackasses that they always were and we accept them while keeping them approximately three thousand miles away from our wedding receptions.

Two thousand miles to dine on a dish of red herring," he said.

Technology brings us closer to the furthest, …and distances us from the closest.

This morning's tea makes yesterday distant.

Half of my heart is deployed.

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will.

What anguish gushes from the heart The quivering lip will tell, When "two fond souls" are call'd to part And far from each other dwell.

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes So that I can no longer see your face. Why should I leave you, To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Distance is inspiration's best hearting.

The stars, like many other things, are only romantic from a distance.

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.

And the world came together as the people stayed apart.

Better six feet apart than six feet under.

When this is over, please continue to stay at least six feet away from me.