Steven Moffat Quotes

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

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

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I am best viewed from a distance.

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.

… splendid isolation

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.