Quotes About Distant

But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart.

Sometimes a girl has to be like the snow, beautiful, but cold.

It was like someone far away calling someone else's name.

He lost the paradoxical gift for being separate and alone and yet intimately connected, mind-wired to distant things.

Love is like sounds, whose last reverberations / Hang on the leaves of strange trees, on mountains / As distant as the curving of the earth, / Where the snow hangs still in the middle of the air. -from Love is Like Sounds

Angels are never too distant to hear you. -Author Unknown

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

that distant look characteristic of people who do not wish to be agreeable...

I shall know my home by its indelible mark upon my longing, for it is the longing that is the plate on which the image is etched in distant light, where there are no angels, only the angelic.

cold as Martin.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

The right honourable gentleman is reminiscent of a poker. The only difference is that a poker gives off the occasional signs of warmth.

Within your lifetime will, perhaps, As souvenirs from distant suns Be carried back to earth some maps Of planets and you'll find that one's So hard to color that you've got To use five crayons. Maybe, not.

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along

that is the way with love affairs--they occupy your mind wholly for a time, and then they become distant countries where you no longer speak the language and have forgotten all the landmarks. [Édouard Manet]

I will still feel some importance in altering the room, because there you were, the pastiche of some lovely distant star as I surrounded only my small self, still alive.

There is beauty in the world. There is no reason for it to be here. If it's all biology, all eating and getting eaten and the strongest devouring the weakest, then it's madness. Nothing more than madness. It's dying and drowning, and all love is illusion. But there is love, you see. Poor, weak, and broken love—a sign of something from a distant land.