Distant Quotes

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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely… — Virginia Woolf
Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant… — Alex Garland
Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then… — Shannon Hale
I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back… — Alice Sebold
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt â€” we are phantoms… — Jostein Gaarder
Dancing. Come on. You can do it. It's a lot like navigating through a laser grid. It requires rhythm.' He moved her hips to the… — Ally Carter
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or… — Garrison Keillor
Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to… — Josh Groban
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than… — Sarah Dessen
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. — Colum McCann
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
Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is… — Jose Saramago
The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence… — Federico Garcia Lorca
The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find… — Nicholas Sparks
God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take… — Joe Hill
People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to… — Gloria Whelan
I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but… — Alice Munro
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships… — James Joyce
Whenever a new situation presented itself, you had to remain cool and distant — Paulo Coelho

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