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All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance. — Vasily Rozanov

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance. — Celine Dion

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. — Cormac McCarthy

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing. — Jan Chipchase

The distance between yourself and others should not be greater than your arm's length. — Christophe Agou

The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance. — Joyce Carol Oates

We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians. — Jacques Ellul

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them. — Chrissie Wellington

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world. — Franklin Pierce

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You. — Rumi

It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner — John L. Parker Jr.

These relations show that the intensity of illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of light. — Charles Mark Turton

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk. — Will Durant

Help them, but don't make friends with them. — Pat Conroy

Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different. — Vanessa Hudgens

This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction. — Emily Nagoski

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth. — V.S. Kemanis

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. — Junot Diaz

Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it. — Ricardo Legorreta

But time and distance is nothing in the face of true affinity ... — Eleanor Catton

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees. — David Nicholls

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people. — Colleen Hoover

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure. — Jean Charest

If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic. — Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together there is something you must always remember ... — A.A. Milne

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. — Theodor Adorno

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. — Vincent D'Onofrio

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance. — Irvine Welsh

It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion. — Garth Risk Hallberg

The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want. — Anita Diamant

Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'
The Last Trump — Isaac Asimov

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance. — Edwin Way Teale

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all. — Michel Faber

The water glittered under the moon's careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city. — Katherine McIntyre

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. — Marilyn Vos Savant

To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you. — Marie Brenner

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. — Yehudi Menuhin

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. — Robert Morgan

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance. — Harlan Coben

Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. — Robert Breault

The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance. — Siddharth Katragadda

The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination. — Douglas Adams

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. — Antonio Porchia

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others. — Leo Buscaglia

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year. — Emily Dickinson

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult. — Terry Pratchett

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away. — Noah

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance. — Bel Kaufman

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own. — Oprah Winfrey

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy. — Ann Aguirre

She must talk to a man who was ten immensities away. — Zora Neale Hurston

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own. — Lynn Austin

Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. — Patrick Rothfuss

Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it? — Simon Van Booy

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ...
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions — Adil Adam Memon

If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics. — Harriet Lerner

Distance is meaningless, as is time, when minds and souls intertwine."

-Gerome in CHANGELING- — Vaun Murphrey

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal

For what we're about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful," Russell muttered as the first explosions echoed in the distance. — C.J. Carella

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small. — Kyle Minor

Standing is symbolic of life itself,
Open space is just a distance between you and someone else — Mira Midha

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. — G. M. Trevelyan

I want to burn down the distance between us — James Ellroy

Long slow distance makes long slow runners. — Jim Bush

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. — John Galsworthy

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama

Some men look larger at a distance. — George R R Martin

Belief that we know all & we are always right
Leads to distance & silence
Keep learning & Keep Expressing ... — Adil Adam Memon

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts. — Sophie Calle

Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance
between himself and the person who'd come for help. — Jodi Picoult

Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. — Brian W. Aldiss

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. — Nelson Mandela

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work. — Leona Lewis

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance. — Yao Ming

Words too soft for me to hear at this distance. But in the end, the words reach me. — Jay Asher

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial. — Malcolm De Chazal

Disharmony prevails when you confuse
Lust with LOVE, while the distance
between the two is endless! — Rumi

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you. — Louie Giglio

At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. — Robert Olen Butler

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. — Alberto Giacometti

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface. — Herb Elliott

Europeans have depth but not distance while North Americans have distance but not depth. — Samuel Beckett

Sometimes the only way you can get through the deepest pain is to distance yourself. — Dan Skinner

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves. — Bruce Lee

I hadn't really thought that far ahead. I was trying to put some distance between me and-"
"-the corset" He said, his dimples appearing — Mary Jane Hathaway

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. — Bob Newhart

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Distance is only a test to see how far love travels. — Vi Keeland

Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy. — John O'Donohue

But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness. — Terri Cheney

Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. — Seneca The Younger

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. — Beth Simone Noveck

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison