Physical Distance Quotes

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

I've been away from my family even when I was in France.

It's difficult when your family are not physically around you.

Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.

I might live miles away from you, but I do understand you issues.

I love you - but don't touch me.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

I wish it didn't take soooooo much to get physically to where I need to be.

Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.