Feeling Distant Quotes

#1. every second I spend sitting around feeling distant from my true desires, avoiding the world and being afraid to engage it, is a second that I'm forfeiting the biggest gift of all: my time here in this life.

Mark Manson

#2. Well, I guess this works too, Nightblood noted, voice feeling distant now.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.

Jill Talbot

#4. Watching the vast ocean, the flickering sunlight, thinking of the distant lands, Eliza was enveloped by a feeling quite unlike any she'd experienced before. A warmth, a glimpse of possibility, an absence of wariness-

Kate Morton

#5. He writes a paragraph a day. A paragraph for Maya. It isn't much, but it's what he has left to give. He

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

Susan Polis Schutz

#7. Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Kobo Abe

#8. No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

Matthew Desmond

#9. Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

Jocelyn Murray

#10. Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

Andy Hargreaves

#11. It said thata we have now-right now- and that's it. We have no promises for tomorrow, only right now and we had to seize the day, the hour, the moment

M. Leighton

#12. Libraries are fascinating places; sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of traveling to distant lands.

Umberto Eco

#13. You can kill me when I no longer enjoy a cup of tea

Carrie Tiffany

#14. God, O God, where art thou? Thou art as distant to me as the lady combing rice in the Yunnan Province of China or a piece of floating space debris circling Pegasi. In this feeling-dead world of post traumatic stress, skepticism is king, queen, and court jester.

Chila Woychik

#15. Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief.

Andre Dubus

#16. Venice took on the feeling of a city paved with black glass, the odd lantern, torch, or candle reflecting in the canals like distant windows into hell, the crescent moon throwing silver scythes across the water where it could find its way between buildings.

Christopher Moore

#17. He could not have explained the intensity of his attraction to {her}, that blissful ache that welled up in his chest at the sight of her barefooting across the dock, the feeling a distant cousin of nostalgia, as if he'd already won and loved and lost her.

Michael Knight

#18. When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Benjamin Franklin

#19. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

Charles Darwin

#20. Being in my mom's skin, feeling what she'd felt those years before. It was the sudden realization that my dying granny, who had been distant and alien to me, was my mom's mom.

Hugh Howey

#21. sweeping out of shops, and the

Charles Dickens

#22. The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

Jim Rohn

#23. She thought the jimster (Jack Daniels) would cure whatever was wrong with her- whatever made her feel like she was in a hall of mirrors, watching herself go through the motions of having a riotous good time

Lucinda Rosenfeld

#24. There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.

Nina LaCour

#25. When you've already broken the rules of the universe, fear becomes only a feeling of disconnection, distant.

Jonas Samuelle

#26. Being upset is a warmer, close-up feeling, not a chilly distant feeling like laughing at people.

Margaret Atwood

#27. It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

Lemony Snicket

#28. The only thing I've loved is nothing at all. The only thing I've desired is what I couldn't even imagine. All I asked of life is that it go on by without my feeling it. All I demanded of love is that it never stop being a distant dream.

Fernando Pessoa

#29. Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through. It's just like when on a rainy day you imagine the faint rays of the sun shining on a distant hill.

Shusaku Endo

#30. Okay,' I said, and waving, we parted. The feeling traveled to some infinitely distant place and disappeared.

Banana Yoshimoto