Quotes About Distance

Ford put a hand to his head. "Back up. Back up!" he cried. "You're too close." Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. "I think he meant for the ghost to back up," Jenks said dryly.

If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids—without exception—were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.

A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.

Solen er forlængst dukket under synsranden, fjældene er blit hvitlig grønne, de ser ut i sin fjærnhet og i sin vælde som en verden for sig selv.

I miss you. You don't know how much I miss you. You don't know how my heart sinks inside me when I think how far away you are. But then, maybe you know that feeling. I hope you do. No, I wouldn't wish that on you. But then, yes I would . . .. Forgive me for missing you that much.

There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.

he drew from his pocket a tiny instrument which he placed against his ear. Ozma, observing this action in her Magic Picture, at once caught up a similar instrument from a table beside her and held it to her own ear. The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard. Those separated by any distance were thus enabled to converse together with perfect ease and without any wire connection.

Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Audible at five miles painful at three and lethal at one.

You ask me, I'd guess heaven and hell look pretty much the same, " I replied. "Only in hell, everything is just a little out of reach.

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.

Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible.

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!

Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.