Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
—Victor Borge
The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.
—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You
Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
—Torquato Tasso
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
—William Butler Yeats
When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.
—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly
We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.
—Rachel Naomi Remen
When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them.
—Tana French in The Likeness
Some relationships just don't work out, no matter how bad both parties might want them to. Sometimes time, distance, and circumstances get in the way. And sometimes we have a purpose for our lives that couldn't be fulfilled inside the bounds of that relationship.
—Mandy Hale in but My Luggage Has
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.
—Dagobert D. Runes
The years teach much which the days never know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.
—Kristen Simmons in Breaking Point
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
—Fred Allen
I was trying not to think about the distance too much, but it was my hope that no matter what happened, at least we'd always be able to find each other.
—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
—George Burns
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
—Unknown