Distant Lights Quotes

#1. As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. When she was little, she'd liked to pretend that stars were really lights anchoring distant islands, as if she wasn't looking up but only out across a dark sea. She knew the truth now but still found stars comforting, especially in their sameness. A sky full of burning replicas.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough

Will Self

#5. The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#6. Some things you did were worth regretting; others not.

Richard Yates

#7. The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Georg Buchner

#8. On a waste place strewn with bricks in the outskirts of a town twilight was falling. A star or two appeared over the smoke, and distant windows lit mysterious lights. The stillness deepened and the loneliness. Then all the outcast things that are silent by day found voices.

Lord Dunsany

#9. We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#10. It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

E.L. Doctorow

#11. People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
[in review of a book]

Abraham Lincoln