Quotes about Distance

How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Prayer is the best way to hug those who are far away.

The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.

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.

Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.

There's a lot of things look better at a distance

When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home.

She had passed by. He felt as if he were walking again in a far world, not Cossethay, a far world, the fragile reality. He went on, quiet, suspended, rarefied. He could not bear to think or to speak, nor make any sound or sign, nor change his fixed motion. He could scarcely bear to think of her face. He moved within the knowledge of her, in the world that was beyond reality.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

When you have been hurt by life, it may be hard to keep that in mind. When you are standing very close to a large object, all you can see is the object. Only by stepping back from it can you also see the rest of its setting around it. When we are stunned by some tragedy, we can only see and feel the tragedy. Only with time and distance can we see the tragedy in the context of a whole life and a whole world.

If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life's crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.