Top 98 Farther Away Quotes
#1. You never sounded farther away from me and I will take that balloon and stab the fuck out of and at the same time I will take that balloon and tie it around Peach's neck because WHO THE FUCK CAN CUNT OUT OVER A BALLOON?
Caroline Kepnes
#2. The children you don't especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have their own way to make in the world. Seems like the brighter they are, the farther they go.
Willa Cather
#3. Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.
Mark Twain
#4. Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.
Paulo Coelho
#5. And now I just keep running. Maybe not physically anymore, but my mind and heart are backpacking through the darkest corners of the world trying to get farther and farther away.
Nyrae Dawn
#6. They say the farther away you are from the beach, the louder it sounds. That way it's always with you and you can always find your way back.
Kerry Kletter
#7. The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self - deception.
Bodhidharma
#8. I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. I was standing right beside her, but the distance between us had split into the kind of canyon I couldn't jump across.
Alexandra Bracken
#9. Had Earth been much closer to the Sun, the oceans would have evaporated. Had Earth been much farther away, the oceans would have frozen. In either case, life as we know it would not have evolved.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#10. There are two ways of extending life : firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another ... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#11. But that had been out-of-doors, under the open irresponsible night. Now, in the warm lamplit room, with all its ancient implications of conformity and order, she seemed infinitely farther away from him and more unapproachable.
Edith Wharton
#12. Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.
Meister Eckhart
#14. With every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.
Peter Kreeft
#15. The truth about forever is that it never gets any closer or farther away.
Maximus Freeman
#16. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorr.
Flannery O'Connor
#17. The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.
Henry Ford
#18. Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?
Louise Rennison
#19. The zenith is just a little farther away from the nadir
Uzoma Ezeson
#20. The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
James Irwin
#21. It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.
Kendare Blake
#22. Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.
Stewart Cink
#23. There's only that one picture of me, standing in front of the motel door with 9 on it, long ago, a month ago. Already that child seems much younger, poorer, farther away, a shrunken, ignorant version of myself.
Margaret Atwood
#24. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
Rafael Palmeiro
#25. In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with.
Edward Alsworth Ross
#26. There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#27. It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.
Martin Milner
#28. Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
Nora Roberts
#29. I think he just gets like this sometimes. Like he needs to pull away. I think of it like winter. During winter, it isn't that the sun is gone (or cheating on you with another planet). You can still see it in the sky. It's just farther away.
Rainbow Rowell
#30. Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.
Geneen Roth
#31. Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
W.S. Merwin
#32. The moment you enter into the world of words, you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.
Osho
#33. Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.
Brian Wansink
#34. That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again ... My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I could not know if stars were equal to each other, but if they were, then the dim ones must be far and farther away, and toward those reaches I hurled my soul.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#35. We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
Nate Powell
#36. Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.
Jillian Michaels
#37. I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.
Tom Hanks
#38. Son," Mr. P said. "You're going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.
Sherman Alexie
#39. It looks like you're still running, Ayd. Haven't you figured out the horizon just gets farther and farther away, and the past stays exactly where you left it?
Jay Crownover
#40. When you lie about yourself, is it to appear closer to or farther away from the middle of the bell curve?
Sheena Iyengar
#41. It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
China Mieville
#42. The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it's clear to me they're moving farther and farther away from the mainstream.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#43. The closer a husband and wife get to God, the closer they get to each other. The farther away they get from God, the farther they get from each other.
Jim Bob Duggar
#44. I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was.
Janet Morris
#45. The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.
Shannon L. Alder
#46. Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do ... The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
Baltasar Gracian
#47. You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.
Meister Eckhart
#48. The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
Marcel Proust
#49. The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
Mike Leigh
#50. In the middle distance, sails were gliding like butterflies, and farther away, ships dotted the mouth of the bay between Awa and Sagami as if brushed in ink in a single flowing stroke.
Haruo Shirane
#51. I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.
Lisa Kleypas
#53. Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
Tullian Tchividjian
#55. And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I'd taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings ...
Donna Tartt
#56. The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.
Sharon Gless
#57. The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.
Nelson Algren
#58. Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Wayne Thiebaud
#59. The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.
Thomas Jefferson
#60. Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.
Steven James
#61. My eyes meet his eyes.
"You were a jerk," I say.
His hands move to my cheeks. "I'm sorry."
I pull away, but I can only go an inch before I bump into lacrosse sticks, not that I really want to go any farther. "Nope. No way. You do not get to kiss me yet."
He pouts.
Carrie Jones
#62. You don't forget the people you love," she told him. "That's what I've realized. They just get farther away. Like a spyglass turned around. Annie to Pete
Alice Hoffman
#63. The little energy you obtained from your breakfast can ignite your willingness to kick start. Don't overlook the little energy you have now by fixing eyes on a supposed magical influence farther away!
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. Technically, if I were farther away from the center of the Earth then I'd be subjected to less gravity and then I would weigh less. So I'm not really fat. I'm just not high enough.
Jenny Lawson
#65. She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.
Cynthia Voigt
#66. For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
George R R Martin
#67. In a family or other small group, altruism prevails, but the farther away a person gets from an individual, the less altruistic he or she behaves toward them.
Mary Pilon
#68. Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.
Brian Greene
#69. You don't need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.
Nelson Algren
#71. Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where Im going, and now I'd give anything to stay.
Kami Garcia
#72. In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'
Fred DeLuca
#73. If they could swing it, most parents visited during meals to try to make their child's hospital room into a piece of the familiar by eating with them, and the kids - without exception - were too kind to tell them it only made home look that much farther away.
Kim Harrison
#74. ... walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend.
Tsegaye Gebre Medhin
#75. The farther you progress toward a vision of our species without limiting conditions on your consciousness, the farther you drift away from what makes you a person among persons in the human community.
Thomas Ligotti
#76. You are not damaged like I am. You are not a hundred scattered pieces, blowing farther and farther away from each other.
Marissa Meyer
#77. My "I" has gone farther and farther away from me. Today it is my farthest "you".
Antonio Porchia
#78. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.
Brian Spellman
#79. The more hopeless you were, the farther away they hid you.
Sylvia Plath
#80. My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write
Kristin Billerbeck
#81. She braced one palm on the wall and used the other to bring him inside her more forcefully, tearing away the last bit of civility between them. Her body yielded under his pummeling strokes. Stretching around him, drawing him in that much farther. She couldn't get close enough.
Cari Quinn
#82. This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.
Jonathan Franzen
#83. We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
John Ortberg
#84. The farther I run away from the place where God dwells, the less I am able to hear the voice that calls me the Beloved, and the less I hear that voice, the more entangled I become in the manipulations and power games of the world.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#85. It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.
Alan Bean
#86. He would joke around, make a few friends, pretend that nothing bothered him, but he always ended up running sooner or later. It was the only thing that made the pain better - feeling like he was moving, getting father and farther away.
Rick Riordan
#87. What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.
Christopher Lambert
#89. Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Eric Allen
#90. Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
Elie Wiesel
#91. It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
Bobby Darin
#92. Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#93. To play music, you have to understand it. I didn't understand 'Topographic Oceans.' That's why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end - and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
Rick Wakeman
#94. A cat came out of an alley, took a look at all the snow, and went back in. Farther on up the street a fat man, aproned and puffing, emerged from a restaurant and whiffed the cold air and gazed yearningly at the sky. As though even the dreams were up there, much too far away.
David Goodis
#95. Don't be deceived by Satan and his lies. Instead, stay close to Christ - because the closer you are to Him, the farther away you are from the devil.
Billy Graham
#96. I never smiled much." His voice was a low purr in the shadows.
"Don't be silly," she replied, taking a step closer to the next portrait
and farther away from him. "You smile all the time."
"At you," he conceded, "with you, because of you.
Olivia Parker
#97. I once ran away from home because I was upset with my parents! I didn't get farther than a few feet into the woods, where I hid behind a tree. Sometimes you feel like you should just go out and rebel, and then you realize it's not the right thing to do. You've got to stay true to your family.
Max Schneider
#98. If your church is not going to support the committed same-sex relationships of LGBT congregants, be honest about that. Bait-and-switch is deceptively un-Christ-like and serves to push gay and transgender believers farther away each time the deception happens.
Kathy Baldock
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