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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 repineKnowing 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
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
Every day, the dispensing of existence ... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.
— Martin Amis
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— Franz Kafka
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
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
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
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
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
So I find words I never thought to speakIn 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
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
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
He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noahsarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah
cared. And that made him real. — Michelle Hodkin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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