46 Distance Quotes To Reflect

Distance is a concept that resonates deeply with many aspects of our lives. Whether it’s the geographical space that separates us from loved ones, the emotional gaps we struggle to bridge, or the metaphorical distances we face in our personal growth, the impact of distance is profound and far-reaching. This curated collection of the top 46 distance quotes invites you to reflect on the various dimensions of distance and its implications. Through these poignant words of wisdom, you may find solace, inspiration, and a deeper understanding of how distance shapes our experiences and relationships.

1. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke

2. “The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.” - Elena Ferrante

3. “If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.” - Arthur Lydiard

4. “I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.” - Sarah Dessen

5. “Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.” - Josh Groban

6. “It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home. ” - Aleksandar Hemon

7. “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.” - Andrew Davidson

8. “I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.” - Cormac McCarthy

9. “I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.” - Jonathan Safran Foer

10. “The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.” - Marian Keyes

11. “Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met.To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point.And the two countries are still at war.” - Vera Nazarian

12. “All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!("The Jelly-Fish")” - David H. Keller

13. “Little sister don't you worry about a thing todayTake the heat from the sunLittle sisterI know that everything is not okBut you're like honey on my tongueTrue love never can be rentBut only true love can keep beauty innocentI could never take a chanceOf losing love to find romanceIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanNo I could never take a chance'Cause I could never understandThe mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanYou can run from loveAnd if it's really love it will find youCatch you by the heelBut you can't be numb for loveThe only pain is to feel nothing at allHow can I hurt when I'm holding you?I could never take a chanceOf losing love to find romanceIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanAnd you're the one, there's no-one elsewho makes me want to lose myselfIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanBrown eyed girl across the streetOn rue Saint DivineI thought this is the one for meBut she was already mineYou were already mine...Little sisterI've been sleeping in the street againLike a stray dogLittle sisterI've been trying to feel complete againBut you're gone and so is GodThe soul needs beauty for a soul mateWhen the soul wants...the soul waits ...No I could never take a chanceOf losing love to find romanceIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanFor love and FAITH AND SEX and fearAnd all the things that keep us hereIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanHow can I hurt when I'm holding you?” - U2

14. “It is a long way off, sir""From what Jane?""From England and from Thornfield: and ___""Well?""From you, sir” - Charlotte Brontë

15. “Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.” - Ian Frazier

16. “Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.” - Samuel Johnson

17. “Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping.” - C. JoyBell C.

18. “A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.” - Chloe Rattray

19. “sad things are beautiful only from a distancetherefore you just want to get away from themfrom a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful” - Tao Lin

20. “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.” - Nicholas Sparks

21. “Hadley realises that even though everything else is different, even though there's still an ocean between them, nothing really important has changed at all.He's still her dad. The rest is just geography.” - Jennifer E. Smith

22. “Everything seems simpler from a distance.” - Gail Tsukiyama

23. “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

24. “I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.” - Steve Maraboli

25. “At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.” - Benjamin J. Carey

26. “We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.” - Ann Aguirre

27. “It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.” - Peter Høeg

28. “You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.” - Anthony Horowitz

29. “It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

30. “The stars up there at night are closer than you think.” - Doug Dillon

31. “I know you better then anyone. You’re practically my son, and I think that it’s the fact that you don’t want to see her leave. You are afraid of change.” He paused; he was right. “You are afraid that she will change.” - Shannon A Thompson

32. “The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.” - Anthony Liccione

33. “Spending time with Savannah made me wonder whether it was possible to defy the norm. I wanted more of her, and no matter what happened between us, I already knew I'd never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, and I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn't be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds.' - John” - Nicholas Sparks

34. “The further from one another, the nearer one can be.” - August Strindberg

35. “Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.Life takes on a neat simplicity, too. Time ceases to have any meaning. When it is dark, you go to bed, and when it is light again you get up, and everything in between is just in between. It’s quite wonderful, really.You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, “far removed from the seats of strife,” as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.At times, you become almost certain that you slabbed this hillside three days ago, crossed this stream yesterday, clambered over this fallen tree at least twice today already. But most of the time you don’t think. No point. Instead, you exist in a kind of mobile Zen mode, your brain like a balloon tethered with string, accompanying but not actually part of the body below. Walking for hours and miles becomes as automatic, as unremarkable, as breathing. At the end of the day you don’t think, “Hey, I did sixteen miles today,” any more than you think, “Hey, I took eight-thousand breaths today.” It’s just what you do.” - Bill Bryson

36. “Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.” - Paolo Giordano

37. “Meskipun raga kita berjarak, namun hati kita selalu bersama. Hatiku dan hatimu tak berjarak.” - Hilda Nurina Sabikah

38. “Hatiku dan hatimu. Tak berjarak.” - Hilda Nurina Sabikah

39. “...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space between them / developed a dangerous cloud.” - Anne Carson

40. “I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.” - Veronica Roth

41. “Take me to 'nowhere' when distance belongs here,there,everywhere.” - Munia Khan

42. “I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.” - Hunter S. Thompson

43. “I don't cry because we've been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together.” - Donna Lynn Hope

44. “Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.” - Paulo Coelho

45. “If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

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