982 Quotes About Distance

I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

All these openings for closeness--all these humans with their disappointments and their desperate hearts, but it's so much easier, so convenient, to blame emotional distance on a lack of time.

I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.

I felt he didn't need much warmth from anybody. His own 37.5º C were sufficient for him. His spirit slept alone.I thought about how, after Ben and I made love he'd turn his body away from me. His naked back would face me. Even though our bodies were just two or three centimeters apart, I couldn't bear that distance. I felt abandoned and sometimes, in the dark, I couldn't help myself, I missed Xiaolin. I missed nights with Xiaolin.

We are bathed in the same sky...We are bound by the same atmosphere which bifurcates our bodies. Somehow, this distance between our feet is a shared belonging.

You can feel the distance. It carries a weight that's heavier than anything.

Just like the forces of Good and Evil, on the levels so much distant from man, logic and reason clash with each other. In that merciless, multi-millennial and primal battle, none of them stepped away for an inch. In a craddle, like no man's land, we, the young human beings, find ourselves gazing upon the "toys that glitter". I wanted to believe.