Quotes About Distance

What we have to go through to commit sin distances us from God—we change in the very act of rebellion—and there is no guarantee we will ever come back. You ask me about forgiveness now, but will you even want it later, especially if it involves repentance?

A troubadour to a distant mistress.

I don't ask for more than a smile and to be in your prayers. I love from afar.

Svaki dan se budim i znam da ?u je vidjeti, a ipak joj ništa ne mogu šapnuti na uho niti joj dodirnuti ruku. Ne mogu je privoljeti da presko?i svoje sastanke, ne mogu je ukrasti iz društva drugih. Svaki je dan pozdravljam kao stranac i vidim bol u njezinim o?ima. Svaki dan je povrijedim svojom hladno?om, a ona mene uništava svojom.

He just flat went ahead and "tore down the dividing wall of hostility" (Eph. 2:14 hcsb) that had stood between them for dozens and dozens of long, gray-haired generations. He wasn't appealing for peace but was proclaiming peace—"peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near" (Eph.

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

Books spoke mind to mind, soul to soul across the abyss of time and distance.

He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone

The edgy style keeps people at a distance and changes the standards by which she will be judged. That's clever and heartbreaking at the same time.

Violence at a distance was still horrific and should be felt just as deeply.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it. - Dash

From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.

Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism

and discover that family, like arsenic, works best in small doses . . . unless you prefer to die.

Anyone who's lived in Manhattan all his life always feels torn whenever he leaves it. There's the satisfaction of breaking free, for a time. But that's balanced heavily by the feeling of leaving your whole life behind, and to see it from a distance.

I miss him a lot. And we text and talk all the time, so he never feels that far. But I'm also happy to have some distance, to feel that I'm becoming myself without having to worry if the relationship is exerting too much influence. It's good to have each other, but you also need to have your own people, your own experiences.

I don't think we should ever try to meet again; there's such freedom in that. Instead, let our words continue to meet. (See next postcard.)

I haven't been able to reach her. And if I can't reach her, there's no way to keep her from being lost.

I notice her the way you notice the differences in someone who's been away a long time. And it hasn't been a long time. It's only been long for us.

Maybe, I thought it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

The distances between things are vast," he said. "They are vast.

And he knew that he would never be able to tell her that he loved her as a foundering ship loves a lighthouse, even though the lighthouse is powerless to save it.