Distant Quotes

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The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. — H.G. Wells
I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant,… — Paulo Coelho
Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our… — Amy Lowell
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life… — Douglas Adams
I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant. — Richard Brautigan
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. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution… — Greg Iles
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will… — C.S. Lewis
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky,… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married… — Elizabeth Gaskell
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faÃ«ry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about… — Michael Crichton
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part… — Jacqueline Carey
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise,… — Stephen Colbert
In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she… — Alice Hoffman

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