Distance Quotes

2234 Distance quotes by 1472 unique authors

Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions. — Anthony Kiedis
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close… — E. M. Forster
..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you… — Gayle Forman
Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Mallory," he said, sounding raw and staggered and touched beyond words. "God, I was so stupid. So slow. I didn't know what to do with… — Jill Shalvis
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself. — Clarice Lispector
I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in… — Ned Vizzini
Trent, do you have any weapons? Like a gun?” He looked at me in disgust. “You’re here to protect me,” he said as he closed… — Kim Harrison
Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out… — David Levithan
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the… — John Green
Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate… — Charles Frazier
Do not look too far for you will see nothing. — Dejan Stojanovic
And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of… — Marcus Aurelius
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything,… — Chuck Palahniuk
He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth… — Guillaume Musso
We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another. — Patti Smith
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone,… — Albert Camus
We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner… — Anneli Rufus
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and… — Henri Nouwen
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless — Douglas Adams
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted… — Melina Marchetta
Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More… — Henry Miller
They say when you really love someone, you should be willing to set them free. So that is what I am doing. I will step… — Tabitha Suzuma
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion,… — Hermann Hesse

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