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It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands. — David Wroblewski

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent. — Paulo Coelho

Then I will not repine
Knowing that bird of mine
Though flown shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return. — Emily Dickinson

You keep only darkness, my distant female,
from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges. — Pablo Neruda

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. — Iris Murdoch

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child. — Ted Kooser

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust. — Demetri Martin

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring — S.J Perelman

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. — Frans Lanting

Time does not heal all wounds, no matter how many drugstore sympathy cards hastily scrawled by distant relatives promise this to be true. — Julie Buxbaum

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant — Thomas Carlyle

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself. — James Norton

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all. — George W. Bush

The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore. — Gregory David Roberts

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. — Clifford D. Simak

I wait, wait to hear your silent footsteps.
I wait, wait to caress your distant voice.
I wait, wait to embrace myself in you. — Debatrayee Banerjee

Finding genetically distant partners is useful. — David Eagleman

A dream is a distant reality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more distant and distinct the relationship between two realities that are brought together, the more powerful the image. — Pierre Reverdy

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her. — Milan Kundera

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal. — Henry B. Eyring

Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She — Sarah J. Maas

A vision is distant voyage. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book, — Danny Porush

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!! — Neil Leckman

Every day, the dispensing of existence ... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. — Martin Amis

All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters — Franz Kafka

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level. — Tom Coburn

A dreamer of distant lands and lover of different cultures — Unknown

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music. — Mac Miller

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. — Georges Bataille

The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.
The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her. — Yu Hua

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. — Stephen Jay Gould

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills. — Sherwood Anderson

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau

I am so close, I may look distant. — Rumi

Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself. — Somya Kedia

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. — Carl Sagan

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. — Vera Nazarian

The sun and the moon shared the horizon in a distant friendship, each unfazed by the other. — Toni Morrison

They were as close and as distant as any family. — Kate Tempest

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. — Robert Collier

She had always loved the stars. But in the desert of winter it was impossible to forget that they were cold, and distant, and did not care. — Seth Dickinson

Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart. — Ryokan

Oh my dear from a distant fantasy land! I love to be in your dreams as a fairy of love with wings of flowers and golden glowing flowing hair. — Debasish Mridha

I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting one another in distant lands, — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you ever feel distant, never mistake who has drifted away. Prayer will close this gap. — Tad R. Callister

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences. — Henry David Thoreau

If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved? — Boonaa Mohammed

So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore. — T. S. Eliot

Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells. — Paolo Giordano

Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. No matter how distant it may seem. — Jill Wolf

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. — Townsend Harris

And then, just as Toby's eyelids were beginning to droop, from nowhere, came the distant singing of a female voice from across the sea. — Helen Laycock

These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers; — Robert Macfarlane

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors. — Ralph Peters

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years. — J.K. Rowling

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. — John F. Kennedy

Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant — Paulo Coelho

He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah
sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah
cared. And that made him real. — Michelle Hodkin

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives. — Damian Marley

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs. — Kristin Hannah

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. — Anthony Horowitz

A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots. — Walter Salles

Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart. — Charles Emmerson

That distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable ... — Marcel Proust

You held on to him In that forsaken bed He's distant, cold - Nothing else could be said. — Dawn Lanuza

For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy. — Laura Bickle

In conclusion, it appears that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries. — Charles Darwin

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town. — Horace

For there was no vessel - at least of Man's making - anywhere between her and the infinitely distant stars. — Arthur C. Clarke

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep. — D.H. Lawrence

My life is just a ghost from distant past". — Alexandar Tomov

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates

even in the face of the devastating Trisolar Crisis, the unity of the human race is still a distant dream. The — Liu Cixin

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon

Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart. — Faraaz Kazi

The water glittered under the moon's careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city. — Katherine McIntyre

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles

She smiled as she imagined that the sun's last rays were flames from a distant dragon. — Kim Cormack

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson

Legends that endure in the future ... were events that took place in the distant past. — Eiichiro Oda

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. — Samuel Johnson

Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above. — Christopher Paolini

We feel closer to those who are distant and farther from those who are close. — George Musser

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. — Seneca The Younger

I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read. — George R R Martin

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. — J. Christopher Stevens

Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic. — W. H. Auden

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. — Lew Wallace

Love, you are the dark cut into memory.
Small, distant, as the sparrow's eye. — Brenda Sieczkowski

Hey there, Lissa Daniels," he said. He raised his Coke. "Would you like to say hello to your distant cousin, Jack? — Kody Keplinger

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. — James A. Michener

We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby. — Paul P. Enns

Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. — Lionel Shriver

Nothing later equalled that first distant glimpse — Frank Kuppner