Distance Quotes

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

~ Saul Williams

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.

~ Louis L'amour

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, remains and needs to remain at his private remove. I wished to be, not effaced, but invisible - actually a profound position. Perspective, the line of vision, the frame of vision - these set a distance.

~ Eudora Welty

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.

~ Edith Wharton

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

~ Camron Wright

Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each other. In that merciless, multi-millennial and primal battle, none of them stepped away for an inch. In a craddle, like no man's land, we, the young human beings, find ourselves gazing upon the toys that glitter. I wanted to believe.

~ Mladen Đorđević

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

~ Elena Ferrante

Every ounce of his soul tells him this will make a good story to tell his friends—an anecdote in the biography, an incident in the life. But part of the sorrow he feels—and it is that—comes from the distance he sees between himself and the storytelling, the hole that has ripped open between the here and the there.

~ David Levithan

May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!

~ Anamika Mishra

My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its turn, for the discovery of the one following it in its order of distances from the Sun. Thus, at least, we should unhappily soon fall among bodies invisible by reason of their immense distance, but whose orbits might yet be traced in a succession of ages, with the greatest exactness, by the theory of Secular Inequal

~ Urbain Le Verrier

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

~ John Day

Perhaps stars were supposed to be viewed from the ground.

~ Becky Chambers

Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top.

~ Oscar Bimpong

Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435

~ Joseph Delaney

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

~ Paolo Giordano

As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she’d get home? That wasn’t the point. It didn’t mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn’t stop the earth’s slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it could.

~ Francine Pascal

I loved him the way some people are to be loved - from a distance.

~ Sanhita Baruah

irony is for a traveler while traveling, happiness increases as the distance increases.

~ Shivangi Lavaniya

We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

~ V.c. Andrews

She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.

~ E. Leo Foster

Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I'm often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The toughest moment ever in life is the distance between struggle and success.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

The eye of judgment sees at a distance what it refuses to see in it's own reflection.

~ T.f. Hodge

He ran from one side of the cage, and then back again, which was not very far. It was far only if you were a puppy.

~ Michael Delaware

It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.)

~ Erich Kästner

People are crazy and times are strange,I'm locked in tightI'm out of range,I use to carebut things have changed.

~ Bob Dylan

If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic.

~ Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I stare mesmerized at the photothat you have sent, pushing your child on the swing...a precious moment capturedand I am remindedof the distance separating usand how it seems like yesterdaywhen I was swinging you, dear son

~ Vijaya Gowrisankar

And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

~ Martin Heidegger

I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

~ Hanif Kureishi

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

~ Anatole Broyard

Always distance yourself from gossip because it's the worst form of self-disruption.

~ Gugu Mona

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

~ Rivera Sun

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

~ Gary Ryan Blair