Quotes About Distance

It feels like we are sitting on the tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking.

It turns out that there's something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you're happy: not being able to comfort her when she's sad.

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance between himself and the person who'd come for help.

In reality, Lacy realized, this dividing line between her and Peter had been there for years. If you kept your chin up, you might even be able to convince yourself there was nothing separating you. It was only when you tried to cross it, like now, that you understood how real a barrier it could be.

Sometimes you have to have the perspective of distance. And sometimes, you cannot tell what you're looking at until it's right under your eye.

These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

But there's another part of me that knows no matter how Delia and I go forward from this point, it won't be the same. Because when she smiles, I will look away before it is contagious. When we sit beside each other, I will make sure that our shoulders do not brush. When we speak, there will be spaces between our words just the shape and size of that damn kiss.

But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or hte head or even the soul, but in the spaces between any given two people.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Man is only lovable in the multitude, and at a good distance.

I've spent so much time pushing the boat out that I forgot to jump on and now it's out beyond the harbour on the high seas, but it's very nice to look at.

You were never a real Avery," he hissed. "You know that, don't you?" "I do," I said. "But Christ on a bike, you came close. You came damned close.

And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it's difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.

Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.

Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance but unpleasantly up close. I

One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

And he recognized that he was separated only by a pane of glass from a life that was as strange to him as life on the moon.

Love doesn't die because of distance. Love dies because of doubt.

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door. I've had you so many times but somehow I want more.

It hurts to realize you love each other but can't live together.

Don't get too attached to someone you know you can't be together with.