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title: "204 Distant Quotes by 189 authors"
description: "Browse 204 Distant quotes by 189 authors. Discover the best Distant sayings and thoughts."
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> [“. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-jones/distant-as-the-death-of-grocery-chickens/)

[Rodney Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-jones/)

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> [“He says everything like it happened to someone else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brent-runyon/he-says-everything-like-it-happened-to-someone-else/)

[Brent Runyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brent-runyon/)

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> [Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mason-cooley/envy-awakens-at-the-sound-of-a-distant-laugh/)

[Mason Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mason-cooley/)

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> [Imagination labors best in distant fields.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/imagination-labors-best-in-distant-fields/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [“Sometimes beauty is best when it’s distant.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/sometimes-beauty-is-best-when-it-s-distant/)

[David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/)

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> [My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-horowitz/my-father-was-aloof-very-strange-and-very-distant/)

[Anthony Horowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-horowitz/)

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> [You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/you-i-said-are-sweet-music-in-a-distant-room/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [Delusive hope still points to distant good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/euripides/delusive-hope-still-points-to-distant-good/)

[Euripides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/euripides/)

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> [“He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/he-was-my-distant-cousin-not-only-was-he-50-miles-away-and-50-years/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damian-marley/everyone-is-related-to-africa-everyone-comes-from-africa-we-are-all/)

[Damian Marley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damian-marley/)

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> [“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-ramirez/her-voice-was-small-and-distant-like-she-d-already-left-the-room/)

[Steven Ramirez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-ramirez/)

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> [“But we can't blame God for being distant when it was in fact us who never drew near.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phylicia-d-masonheimer/but-we-can-t-blame-god-for-being-distant-when-it-was-in-fact-us-who/)

[Phylicia D. Masonheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phylicia-d-masonheimer/)

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> [Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mac-miller/every-single-person-in-my-life-and-every-relationship-i-have-is/)

[Mac Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mac-miller/)

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> [God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-baldwin/god-be-thanked-for-books-they-are-the-voices-of-the-distant-and-the-2/)

[James A. Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-baldwin/)

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> [“snowy mountains are, and the sea, they say, with the distant”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/various/snowy-mountains-are-and-the-sea-they-say-with-the-distant/)

[Various](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/various/)

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> [The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-masefield/the-distant-soul-can-shake-the-distant-friend-s-soul-and-make-the/)

[John Masefield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-masefield/)

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> [Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-m-lerner/lots-of-science-fiction-deals-with-distant-times-and-places-intrepid/)

[Edward M. Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-m-lerner/)

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> [There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monica-johnson/there-was-a-time-in-the-not-so-distant-past-that-if-you-didn-t-have/)

[Monica Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monica-johnson/)

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> [When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-kardong/when-i-was-in-middle-school-and-teachers-lectured-about-world-war-ii/)

[Don Kardong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-kardong/)

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> [ “\[Y\]ou have no happiness in your heart, no power, no will that does not live in us as a presentiment, a reflection,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-hesse/y-ou-have-no-happiness-in-your-heart-no-power-no-will-that-does-not/)

[Hermann Hesse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-hesse/)

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> [We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/we-know-about-every-massacre-that-has-taken-place-close-to-the/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-jackson/television-broadcasts-have-in-the-main-been-more-suggestive-less/)

[Bruce Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-jackson/)

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> [Why is life so hard. Why are you so far? Your distant. Your different. You try to hide the fact that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/why-is-life-so-hard-why-are-you-so-far-your-distant-your-different/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kristine/when-people-think-of-slavery-they-think-of-an-era-from-the-distant/)

[Lisa Kristine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-kristine/)

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> [Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's impossible. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bloom/our-best-hope-for-the-future-is-not-to-get-people-to-think-of-all/)

[Paul Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bloom/)

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> [Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-chinmoy/heaven-and-god-are-not-high-above-us-far-away-they-are-deep-within-us/)

[Sri Chinmoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-chinmoy/)

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> [What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-greenspan/what-i-see-in-the-corporate-sector-is-very-clearly-an-issue-of-a/)

[Alan Greenspan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-greenspan/)

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> [Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/narendra-modi/space-may-seem-distant-but-is-an-integral-part-of-our-daily-life-it/)

[Narendra Modi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/narendra-modi/)

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> [The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jakes/the-house-burned-an-hour-before-midnight-on-the-last-day-of-april-the/)

[John Jakes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jakes/)

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> [I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ji-hae-park/i-would-not-want-the-limitations-held-by-the-name-of-a-classical/)

[Ji-Hae Park](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ji-hae-park/)

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> [I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-catton/i-grew-up-on-the-south-island-of-new-zealand-in-a-city-chosen-and/)

[Eleanor Catton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-catton/)

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> [In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-berg/in-the-not-so-distant-past-we-were-close-enough-to-our-community-to/)

[Yehuda Berg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-berg/)

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> [“Bound for your distant home" Bound for your distant home you were leaving alien lands. In an hour as sad as I’ve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-sergeyevich-pushkin/bound-for-your-distant-home-bound-for-your-distant-home-you-were/)

[Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-sergeyevich-pushkin/)

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> [The more distant the future, the better it appears](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ritu-ghatourey/the-more-distant-the-future-the-better-it-appears/)

[Ritu Ghatourey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ritu-ghatourey/)

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> [“You were so distant I forgot you were there at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupi-kaur/you-were-so-distant-i-forgot-you-were-there-at-all/)

[Rupi Kaur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupi-kaur/)

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> [You are unattainable like a star that so distant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-are-unattainable-like-a-star-that-so-distant/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-salles/a-filmmaker-can-never-be-distant-from-his-roots/)

[Walter Salles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-salles/)

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> [She is the distant reality of his dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jey-lopez/she-is-the-distant-reality-of-his-dreams/)

[Jey Lopez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jey-lopez/)

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> [“the distant cries of the seagulls”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-oliver/the-distant-cries-of-the-seagulls/)

[Lauren Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-oliver/)

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> [Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-bataille/naturally-love-s-the-most-distant-possibility/)

[Georges Bataille](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-bataille/)

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