Quotes About Distant Friends

#1. Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving

#2. Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Allegra Goodman

#3. Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.

Anthony Hopkins

#4. Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

Confucius

#5. My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

Paul Klee

#6. Goodbye my friends. It is time to leave you. I see a tunnel of light a warm channel of attractive light calling me. I see Grace in the distant floating with her arms opening saying it is my time to pass on.

Annette J. Dunlea

#7. When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.

George Barna

#8. You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor,' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Gemini Adams

#9. A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Aaron Copland

#10. I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#11. I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. We're stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we're all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

Dannika Dark

#14. A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn't have friends.

Montesquieu

#15. Our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.

Orlando Rodriguez

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

Susan Polis Schutz

#17. It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past ...

C.S. Lewis

#18. The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenko

#19. Technology has bridged the gap of distant communication,bringing friends and family closely together but no matter the number of 'likes', tweets, chats, comments, posts and shares, none can compare to a sincere smile, a kind kiss and a warm hug

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#20. We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Adventure time, Come on grab your friends, We'll go to a very distant land, Jake the dog, and Fin the human, The fun will never end, Its adventure Time!

R.K. Davenport

#22. Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet called College ...
And made a bunch of new friends. So. There was the one guy who was there since the beginning basically ...
Zechariah: Since the beginning?

Zechariah Barrett

#23. Even if the trophy is gone, you still won it and that victory lasts forever.

Jay Crownover

#24. I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.

Aurel Stein

#25. How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#26. Anyway, my point is (I know, I know, there is one), I don't want to be
one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant
memory. I want us to be best friends forever, Alex.

Cecelia Ahern

#27. When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes.
Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?"
I'm not taking them off."
Why not?"
I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.

Jen Lancaster

#28. It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. Our acquaintances - not our friends - are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

Malcolm Gladwell

#30. Show business got really tainted for me.

Anna Chlumsky

#31. Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Thomas Browne

#32. Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And
I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often
not. Life is a dream surely.

Virginia Woolf

#33. I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.

Tui T. Sutherland