Distance Quotes

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast – or else there is nothing at all.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Despite the distance that separates us, we are not limited by borders. We are one global Armenian nation together.

And every breath without you is torture, but at least I can finally breathe again.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self…I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.