Quotes about Distance
When bedtime came the difficulty was to write to Bonamy, Jacob found. Yet he had seen Salamis, and Marathon in the distance. Poor old Bonamy! No; there was something queer about it. He could not write to Bonamy.
- Virginia Woolf
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.
- Charles Dickens
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
- DH Lawrence
Prayer is the best way to hug those who are far away.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
- Henry B. Eyring
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.
- Cormac McCarthy
Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home. People in hell want ice water.
- Cormac McCarthy
There's a lot of things look better at a distance
- Cormac McCarthy
When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home.
- Cormac McCarthy
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.
- DH Lawrence
Faith is like radar which sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
- Corrie Ten Boom