Quotes about Distance

It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.

When I no longer have your heart I will not request your body your presence or even your polite conversation. I will go away to a far country separated from you by the sea — on which I cannot walk — and refrain even from sending letters describing my pain.

I wish you were with me, or I with you.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Imagine that the telegraph is an immense long dog — so long that its head is at Vienna and its tail is at Paris. Well, tread on its tail, which is at Paris, and it will bark at Vienna.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.

Angels are never too distant to hear you.

I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible.