Things must be felt with the heart.
— Helen Keller
Successful Distant Relationship quotations

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.
The image is a pure creation of the mind.
It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality..

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

We need to go back to our relationship with nature and understand that those trees are our lungs. The earth is recycling as our body. The rivers are our circulation. This air is our breath. And the star stuff, the carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen that comes from distant galaxies is actually the molecules of your body.
Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.
Here in my heart, that is where you will be;
you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.
I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day.
And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty.
I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.
I think in America, especially today, our relationship to war is incredible distant. Yet narratives of war have such a primal power in this culture. They mainline directly into a whole series of emotional reactions and understandings of American patriotism, masculinity, and all of these other things.
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.

There are some libertarians who are really anarchists, but others are more concerned about the distant relationship between themselves and power. They mistakenly think they want to get rid of government when instead they might just want to have greater access to power.
We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
I care," he said in a trembling voice.
"I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.