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Quotes About Distant

Ghosts, they say, stay for three simple reasons: they love life too wholly to leave, they love some other too deeply to part, or they need to linger on for a bit, to coax a distant knife toward its fated throat.
~ Toby Barlow
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
~ Pablo Neruda
This is some sort of joke, isn't it? asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. Probably, I say. But then, what isn't?
~ Dan Simmons
This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel borrowed from the inn. "Possibly," I say. "But then, what isn't?
~ Dan Simmons
The sermon is merely a presence, a distant drone among the humming and singing that the air is already full of, borne away on the fragrance that draws through the windows.
~ Wendell Berry
O the irony of desire, always hearkening after the liquid glimmer beyond the distant-most dune. Sometimes only to find that it is no different from the parched sand on which we stood days, months, years ago, in yearning.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Isolation from local needs and overexposure to overwhelming but distant need, make our responses to strangers uncertain and tentative at best
~ Christine D. Pohl
The bards sublime,Whose distant footsteps echoThrough the corridors of Time.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It was a warm, rainy, autumnal day. The wide expanse that opened out before the heights on which the Russian batteries stood guarding the bridge, was at times veiled by a diaphanous curtain of slanting rain, and then, suddenly spread out in the sunlight, far-distant objects could be clearly seen glittering as though freshly varnished. Down
~ Leo Tolstoy
They call themselves SeaWings," Willow whispered. "And they come from the Distant Kingdoms.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success. I have seen so many people suffocated by success, making mistakes which ended up destroying years of work, yielding to heavy drinking, becoming aggressive, tough, bitter. These people are distant from themselves, and distant from others.
~ Paulo Coelho
His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.
~ Dave Eggers
I like the fans' sound at night. Do you? It's like somebody big far away goes like: it'sOKit'sOKit'sOKit'sOK, over and over. From very far away.
~ David Foster Wallace
He looks mean in a kind of distant way.
~ David Foster Wallace
When you're going through hard times and God seems distant, apologetics can help you to remember that our faith is not based on emotions, but on the truth, and therefore you must hold on to it.
~ William Lane Craig
If the twinkling of the stars pains me, if this distant communication is possible, it is because something almost like a star quivers within me.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
~ Hermann Weyl
Everything is ferns, leaf mold, the crackle of fire, and the hum of distant voices.
~ Holly Black
the most out of the way? He
~ Jeffery Deaver
The sky was almost black. Distant rolling rumbles. Lightning flashed white in the kitchen. (I had a goofy thought: Did God just take our picture?)
~ Jerry Spinelli
Good morning," he drawled. She straightened her shoulders with the silent reminder that she had to be as distant as he was. "My lord." He gave her an indulgent smirk. "As much as I like to be referred to as your lord, I think we've gone far beyond those empty platitudes. You have called me Ethan several times." He hesitated and tapped his chin. "Actually you moaned it once. I prefer you call me that while we are alone together.
~ Jess Michaels
When from afar they saw the son Of Saint Vibhá?dak toward
~ V?lm?ki