Distant Quotes

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By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now heâ€™s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if heâ€™s been waiting… — Libba Bray
Myron reached for the phone and dialed Win's number. After the eighth ring he began to hang up when a weak, distant voice coughed. "Hello?"… — Harlan Coben
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of… — Haruki Murakami
That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs… — Michael Chabon
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and… — Janet Fitch
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant... — Rainer Maria Rilke
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical… — Alessandro Baricco
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy.… — Thurgood Marshall
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what… — John O'Donohue
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound… — Douglas Adams
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.… — Richard Brautigan
They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place… — Saul Williams
It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete… — Bill Bryson
I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the… — Philip K. Dick

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