Quotes About Distance

How far is heaven? It's not very far. When you live close to God, it's right where you are.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.

Time passes and you must move on Half the distance takes you twice as long So you keep on singing for the sake of the song.

With Patience, no time is too long... no distance is too far... no mountain is too high. And anything realized after the journey is usually Precious.

Good things happen when you distance yourself from negativity and those who create it.

Positive things happen when u distance yourself from negative people .

The fact that we can't kiss our elbow helps us to realize that some things in life are very close to us, but still beyond our reach.

The fact that you cannot kiss your elbow is enough to make you realize that some things seem so close, yet they are beyond your reach.

Its crazy how someone can be there. Without actually being there. Your so close to them that they made it to where they are every where.

The test of friendship doesn't come when you're together. It comes when you part ways and you realize that despite the distance, the friendship is still there.

True love isnt about being inseparable; its about two people being true to each other even when they are separated.

I don't really know how to be friends with you.

In Guermantes, the narrator, admitted to the Duchesse's society after he has been cured of his infatuation with her, tends to record what he sees and hears, to note the disparity between glamour seen from a distance and the triviality it masks when encountered at close quarters.

The stage scenery, still in its place, among which I was passing, seen thus at close range and without the advantage of any of those effects of lighting and distance on which the eminent artist whose brush had painted it had calculated, was a depressing sight, and Rachel, when I came near her, was subjected to a no less destructive force.

and yet I had given up hope of encountering in the street what I had come there to seek, the affection promised to me at the theater in a smile, the figure of a woman, and the bright face beneath her fair hair, which were only real when seen from a distance. Now I could not even have said what Mme de Guermantes was like, what I recognized her by, for every day, in the picture she presented as a whole, the face was as different as the dress and the hat.

Não tinha à minha frente mais que um senhor de casaca que se ia afastando; mas eu manobrava em seu redor, como um refletor defeituoso, e sem conseguir aplicá-lo exatamente sobre ele, o pensamento de que era o príncipe de Saxe e ia ver a princesa de Guermantes.

It is true that these changes have occurred to us without our being aware of them; but the distance between the memory which suddenly returns and our present personality as similarly between two memories of different years and places, is so great that it would suffice, apart from their specific uniqueness, to make comparison between them impossible.

Nothing so tempts us to approach another person as what is keeping us apart; and what barrier is so insurmountable as silence? It has been said also that silence is torture, capable of goading to madness the man who is condemned to it in a prison cell. But what an even greater torture than that of having to keep silence it is to have to endure the silence of the person one loves!

But, just as we do not possess that sense of direction with which certain birds are endowed, so we lack the sense of our own visibility as we lack that of distances, imagining as quite close to us the interested attention of the people who on the contrary never give us a thought, and not suspecting that we are at the same time the sole preoccupation of others.

The true greatness of art is to find, grasp, and bring out that reality which we all live a great distance from; that reality which we run the risk of dying without having known, which is quite simply our own life.

Of course, physics prevents us from dividing things beyond a certain limit, determined by what is called the Planck constant. This is because, according to physicists, it is actually impossible to measure a distance smaller than 10-34m without creating a black hole that would swallow up the measuring device.