Yoko Ono Quotes

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

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Do we need distance to get close?

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

and i was right here , almost right within reach , but still one thousand mile away

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

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

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

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.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I'm not an intimate person, really.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.