Distant Shore Quotes

#1. Inspiration is a message-in-a-bo ttle from the distant shore, a window into the other world, a tap of the muse's finger, the grace of the gods. It comes when you least expect it ...

Phil Cousineau

#2. Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above.

Christopher Paolini

#3. The power of love is enough to reach a distant shore and to touch a heart.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

Ray Davies

#5. So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.

T. S. Eliot

#6. What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Cesare Pavese

#7. To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

#8. I could hear only the slight murmur of the city, faint and rhythmic as the breaking of waves on a distant shore. The statues glistened in the moonlight, and in the early morning hours the wind sometimes wafted the spicy aroma of vegetables from the near-by Halles.

Anonymous

#9. Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he's come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he's been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn't utter a word, but his smile says everything: I've missed you.

Libba Bray

#11. He launched into the color-tsunami of Prokofiev's fourth piano sonata. It soon carried him onto a distant shore where the only thing broken was the silence.

B.V. Lawson

#12. Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

J. Christopher Stevens

#13. It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. OK. How to start? All right. I'm going to be very blunt, so here it goes,' he says. 'I can see the future.'

'Um. Yeah. Sure you can, Dad,' I say.

Giselle Simlett

#15. She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip
finally returning home.

Lauren Kate

#16. The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.

Gregory David Roberts

#17. When I forget that the stars shine in air
When I forget that beauty is in stars
When I forget that love with beauty is
Will I forget thee: till then all things else.

Philip James Bailey

#18. Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.

Robin S. Sharma

#19. Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

Gwen Calvo

#20. The shattered glass
Of soundproof walls
That can block the night no more
Is scattered, alas,
On the broken stillness
Of a distant, darkened shore.

L.S. Hartfield

#21. Your biggest dream?"

"Kiss you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#22. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach'rous shore.

Horace

#23. At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

#24. The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.

Rose George

#25. When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#26. It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Isaac Newton

#27. For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached - yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.

Rabindranath Tagore

#28. All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.

Virginia Woolf