These distance quotes will inspire you. Distance how far from each other two points or places are.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging distance quotes, distance sayings, and distance proverbs.
Famous Distance Quotes
- “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance, they have traveled from the point where they started.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ~ Khalil Gibran
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“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” ~ Robert Southey
- “Distance makes the heart grow fonder.” ~ Simone Elkeles
- “Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.” ~ Henri Nouwen , Separated by distance quotes
- “Distance lends enchantment to the view.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.” ~ Gilbert Parker
- “I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.” ~ Luis Miguel
- “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.” ~ Nicholas Sparks , Distance quotes love
- “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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“Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.” ~ Elizabeth Ashley
- “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart” ~ Helen Keller
- “For time is the longest distance between two places.” ~ Tennessee Williams
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“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God” ~ Ivan Illich
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller
- “From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.” ~ Jean de La Fontaine
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“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.” ~ Jean Piaget
- “It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.” ~ Aesop
- “When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.” ~ Hayley Williams
- “Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.” ~ Aristotle , Friendship distance quotes love
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“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- “Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.” ~ Robert Morgan
- “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.” ~ Andrew Davidson
- “Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
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“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance, they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.” ~ Jean-Paul
- “Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.” ~ Steven Wright
- “Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” ~ Richard Bach
- “I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
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“Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.” ~ Erica Jong
- “If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a man my son!” ~ Rudyard Kipling - “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” ~ Henri Nouwen
- “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” ~ e. e. cummings
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“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall” ~ George Fetherling
- “That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.” ~ George Eliot
- “I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.” ~ Xunzi
- “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far you’ve been.” ~ Sasha Azevedo
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“You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you’re doing, and I can manage that.” ~ Steven Morrissey
- “Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.” ~ Brian Aldiss
- “All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.” ~ Theodore Hesburgh
- “What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” ~ George Eliot
- “The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
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“Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.” ~ Marilyn vos Savant
- “Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.” ~ Whitney M. Young
- “In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.” ~ Mao Zedong
- “I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “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
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“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.” ~ Ravi Zacharias
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“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “To the wrongs that need resistance,
To the right that needs assistance,
To the future in the distance,
Give yourselves.” ~ Carrie Chapman Catt - “It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true.” ~ Haruki Murakami
