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Quotes About Distance

about three thousand miles separating them. She
~ David Baldacci
Williston isn't that far from here," said Kelly.
~ David Baldacci
crow flies. That's where they met.
~ David Baldacci
It was really almost a 90-yard punt, and had the sort of hang-time the Special Teams Asst. said you could have tender and sensitive intercourse during.
~ David Foster Wallace
The conjoined dogs were too distant to ascertain whether they had collars or tags, yet close enough that I could make out the expression on the face of the dominant dog above. It was blank and at the same time fervid—the same general expression as on a human being's face when he is doing something that he feels compulsively driven to do and yet does not understand just why he wants to do it.
~ David Foster Wallace
Because we ceased long ago to be enough apart for a love to span any distance.
~ David Foster Wallace
Television," after all, literally means "seeing far";
~ David Foster Wallace
I do desire we may be better strangers.
~ William Shakespeare
Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point.
~ William Shakespeare
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
~ William Shakespeare
they have seem'd to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed winds.
~ William Shakespeare
This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship
~ William Shakespeare
God be wi' you. Let's meet as little as we can. Orlando: I do desire we may be better strangers.
~ William Shakespeare
So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend. Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!
~ William Shakespeare
It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.
~ William Styron
but I ain't seen 'em in twenty years.
~ William W. Johnstone
No. My family lived back in Ohio. Still does, I reckon. I ain't seen 'em since I was twelve.
~ William W. Johnstone
So much had happened in their relationship since the angry scene of last August that they met like strangers, remembering the old emotions but no longer feeling them.
~ Winston Graham
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Tuose puslapiuose tvinksi toks gyvas laikme?io pul­sas, kad mÅ«s? Å¡irdyse kyla tikrumo alkis, gyvenimo ir tegu netobulo jo realizavimo geismas. Ta?iau gyvenimas lieka ta­rytum už stiklo – nutolÄ™s – viskas lyg jau ne mÅ«s?, lyg žvelg­tum pro traukinio langÄ….
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Everything here is too far to walk - or too muddy; for the dirt in Paris is beyond all description.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wir sind voller Begegnungen, Begegnungen ohne Dauer und ohne Abschied, wie die Sterne. Sie nähern sich, stehen Lichtsekunden nebeneinander entfernen sich wieder: ohne Spur, ohne Bindung, ohne Abschied.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
I'm down here looking at the Potomac River; they say George Washington threw a silver dollar across it once. It looks a little bit too far for me to do that trick, but maybe he could. After all, a dollar went further in those days.
~ Woody Guthrie
Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.
~ Xenophon