It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Hide the miles between usRun to meLike you run yourFingers through my hairDesire in every digit, in every touch.Run to meLike rivers run in springtimeFilled with renewing loveAs they do with the melting snow.Fly to...

Il est plus facile d’être un voyageur ou un savant que d’être un ami, un amant. Plus aisé d’aimer les hommes vaguement que d’aimer à la perfection un seul être imparfait.

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...

The ‘Dance of Love’ is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines...

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

You’re my closest friend and you’re thousands of miles away.

Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents...

We’ll meet again, but you’re a lifetime away, and I need you now.

It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call...

Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused...

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

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

I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.

There’s nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

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

You are afraid that she will change.

…Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known...

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...

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I’m just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men...

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

I usually kept everybody at arm’s distance.

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...

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.

Most people assume because my name is Jarod that I was born Martha proof. But I’m not Martha proof—I’m merely Martha resistant up to 100 meters.

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....

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

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She explains that families who are willing to pay the rather high costs of hospitalization do so to prove...

Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn’t get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the...

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

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...

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the...

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out...

Little sister don’t you worry about a thing todayTake the heat from the sunLittle sisterI know that everything is not okBut you’re like honey on my tongueTrue love never can be rentBut only true love...

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I managed to beat Michael Phelps’ 400 meter IM time. And not only did I beat his time, but I did it in exactly 200 meters.