Quotes About Distance

The praying stopped, and Alford turned from that far near distance and walked out on to the veranda alone, thinking still of that self beyond his reach in a faraway place, as a loss, as something he had been deprived of. But how do you feel the loss of a self that you did not have to lose? How can you lose an Africa you did not know? But that was what he felt: the loss of not having had that loss to lose.

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

Hi Cosmos, How is your Milky Way? I miss you.

We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.

He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

To kirk the nearer, from God more far,Has been an old-said saw.And he that strives to touch the stars,Oft stumbles at a straw.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

No me importa nada más, le juro. Me alcanza saberla conmigo en este entuerto. Sabiendo eso, me aguanto el silencio y la distancia y los años y lo que venga. Eso es todo, Ofelia. Disculpe la osadía de escribirle esta carta. Y disculpe la osadía de decirle, en cinco letras imperdonables: la amo.

I love your letters. How far is that from saying I love you? Well--about a mile. Two miles.

Time is relative, said Heraclitus a long time ago, and distance a function of velocity. Since the ultimate goal of transport technology is the annihilation of space, the compression of all Being into one pure point, it follows that six-packs help. Speed is the ultimate drug and rockets run on alcohol.

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

We know that we have got about 2500 ft. to fall yet . . . and if it comes all in the first hundred miles we shan't be dreading rapids afterwards for if it should continue at this rate much more than a hundred miles we should have to go the rest of the way up hill which is not often the case with rivers.

Continent isolated.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Distance between two hearts is not an obstacle, rather a beautiful reminder of just how strong true love can be.

Imagine that the telegraph is an immense long dog — so long that its head is at Vienna and its tail is at Paris. Well, tread on its tail, which is at Paris, and it will bark at Vienna.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.

Half of my heart is deployed.