Quotes about Distance

We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.

It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Sometimes when He seems the farthest away from us, He's really the closest.

If they make the choice to walk over me rather than walk with me, I'll have to love them from afar.

I don't know what to say or how to say it." So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. "Everything's fine," I said. But everything wasn't fine. Not at all.

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

God seems far away and French fries are right around the corner at the drive-thru.

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; For, thus friends absent speak.

I am a shadow now, alas! alas! Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling Alone: I chant alone the holy mass, While little sounds of life are round me knelling, And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass, And many a chapel bell the hour is telling, 310 Paining me through: those sounds grow strange to me, And thou art distant in Humanity.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.