"The past of the soul is so distant!……" — Gaston Bachelard
"The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie."
More Distant Quotes
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world… — Michelle Bachelet
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving… — Hugo Black
- If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to… — Jack Black
- October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills… — Hal Borland
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors… — Jean de la Bruyere
- The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
- As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when… — Chanakya
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of… — William Ellery Channing
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran