Distance Quotes

“We're almost a whole shadow now from far away.”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

“Where the stars are scattered thinly,' quoted Barr, 'And the cold of space seeps in.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.”
― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

“Sometimes neither distance makes the heart grow fonder nor absence lessens surging passions.”
― Faraaz Kazi, More Than Just Friends

“And sometimes that's just what happens. People grow apart.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“To see the truth, make a habit of looking at everything from a distance and above all, look at yourself from a distance too see the truth about yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Relationships are tested by distance, love is put to the test by closeness.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Never confuse a clear path with a short distance.”
― Daren Martin

“I can love you and still let you go.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I didn’t realize just how much of a wall Billy put up around himself when he was near me until that moment, when suddenly there was no wall. Like how you don’t register you’re hearing the hum of a car engine until it’s turned off.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Can miles truly separate us from friends or lovers... If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?”
― Nitya Prakash

“. . . distance and imagination which is almost always indispensable to the birth of legends.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“And so you travel.
Forgetting that the problem is you.
And where ever you go, you carry yourself.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“But home is 6617 miles away; a burning building. A sinking ship. A dying thing.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“On almost every front, we have begun a turning away from a felt relationship with the natural world. The blinding of the stars is only one aspect of this retreat from the real. In so many ways, there has been a prising away of life from place, an abstraction of experience into different kinds of touchlessness. We experience, as no historical period has before, disembodiment and dematerialisation. The almost infinite connectivity of the technological world, for all the benefits that it has brought, has exacted a toll in the coin of contact. We have in many ways forgotten what the world feels like. And so new maladies of the soul have emerged, unhappinesses which are complicated products of the distance we have set between ourselves and the world.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places

“Love can't exist without longing.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“I always refrained from speaking words of affection. Ever since, I was a child, I used to call my parents by their first names and never quite knew what to respond when they used to bathe me with their I love yous. I used to avoid words of love at any cost. Out of tremendous fear and out of the obligation of reciprocity, I chose my words very carefully. But these words sometimes betrayed me. They bathed in my eyes and in my gaze that caressed the wind, even in those fleeting moments when I used to look away into the horizon and especially in those moments where I did.

I refrained from engaging. I refrained from reciprocating. I refrained from running towards. I refrained from opening my arms wide open. I refrained from screaming "Stay here." Instead, I fled. I dwelled in silence. I escaped. I stared into the void. I stared within. And I ran inwards.

But when my alphabet stumbled upon your name, the lump in my throat dissipated. The weight that lays heavily on my chest vanished. You see, there are millions of children in my heart that scream: I love you. There is a marching band in my heart that chants your name. You'll never hear them but they do. And I laugh at the madness I have become.”
― Malak El Halabi

“Separation has nothing to do with distance...”
― Nitya Prakash

“Your face is under
gauze and ever at a distance.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Heaven

“Two missed calls and you think your father is dead again. The conversation is rushed. Nuances of your new life are pushed into a speaker. They meet alien ears. At home; you are an old stranger. Away; you are a new one.
All you have of your family is in a phone. And it is why you can never lose it.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“we’ve lived such a distance
from one another
through lifetimes and loneliness
across dimensions
through heaven and hell
and still we are loving
ourselves to one another”
― Nitya Prakash

“The city of Los Angeles—dirty, motley, teeming with immigrants and actors—was only an hour away. Notionally, it was the anchor of the region, but it existed at such a spiritual and sociological remove that it could have been the moon. Most likely, people settling in the San Jacinto Valley hoped not to make their way closer to Los Angeles but to make their way farther from it.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, but my Aunt Jane used to add on to that, "of somebody else". Out of sight, out of mind is the truer proverb.”
― Mary Westmacott, A Daughter's a Daughter

“When it comes to solar modules and solar inverters, I advise people to keep their distance from them.”
― Steven Magee

“When it comes to smart meters, I advise people to keep their distance from them.”
― Steven Magee

“Le relazioni sono messe alla prova dalla distanza, l'amore è messo alla prova dalla vicinanza.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“If you feel the distance between you and your loved one is increasing, maybe it’s time for you to stop moving.”
― Nitya Prakash

“The primary causes of unhappiness? Having a bad commute. If you have a job, the drive there is the most stressful thing you’ll do on any given day. And people with particularly long car commutes are more likely to be depressed, have a mental health breakdown, and even get divorced.”
― Elly Blue, Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures

“Brother, why do we fight like we are not flesh of flesh? Blood of blood. Bone of bone. Like if the time came I would not go to war for you or catch a thousand bullets just to keep you safe.

Brother, why do we push these words at each other like we are not of the same womb?

Brother, why do we use our truths like knives?
Why does this distance exist between us?
Why are we worlds apart on the same planet?”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“I will see clearly in 2020.”
― Steven Magee