Admiration from a Distance Quotes

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

I'm actually not star-struck... I like to give people their own space and admire them from a distance.

I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.