Far Away Quotes - Page 16

• I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Cities, Cartoon

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• There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

  Brian Andreas

  Country, Matter, Too Much

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• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, "I wish I could do that." Like women who endure hardships and turn their luck around and bring up children on their own and start a business. Or a social worker who leaves his country, his comfort, his friends, and goes far away to help people he doesn't know. I want to evolve into that, ultimately. I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Thinking, Way

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.231, Random House

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• If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me and my doings than faraway bullies sitting in offices in Washington, and can oppress me far more effectively.

  Henry Spencer

  Office, Bully, Sitting

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• In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the rain falls down through tree branches, the aroma of honeysuckle as I ride my bike down the Natchez Trace, and through the love of friends who have carried me through the darkest times of my life.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Laughter, Children, Rain

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Heart, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Rose had the sort of eyes that manage perfectly well with things close by, but entirely blur out things far away. Because of this even the brightest stars had only appeared as silvery smudges in the darkness. In all her life, Rose had never properly seen a star. Tonight there was a sky full. Rose looked up, and it was like walking into a dark room and someone switching on the universe.

  Hilary McKay

  Stars, Eye, Dark

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• And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Crowds, All Alone, Book Of Disquiet

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• At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Keys, Sky, Drawing

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• You said you knew the perfect place to run to. A place that was empty of people, and buildings, and far, far away. A place covered in blood-red earth and sleeping life. A place longing to come alive again. It's a place for disappearing, you'd said, a place for getting lost... and for getting found. I'll take you there, you'd said. And I could say that I agreed.

  Lucy Christopher

  Running, Sleep, Blood

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Heart, Mind, Matter

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.39, Grove Press

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• 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 I"m going, and now I'd give anything to stay.

  Kami Garcia

  Funny Things, Giving, Ironic

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• Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Hours, Take Me

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.357, Scholastic Inc.

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• ...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Lying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.67, Penguin

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• Okay. I've got a good one." Simon stroked Isabelle's hair feeling her lashes flutter against his neck as she closed her eyes. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Long

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1936, Simon and Schuster

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• It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Light, Self, Cherish

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• I visited many places,
  Some of them quite
  Exotic and far away,
  But I always returned to myself.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Exotic

  "The Return". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Home, Tired, Conquer

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• The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.

  Neal Shusterman

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  Neal Shusterman’s 2005 BGHB Fiction Award Speech, www.hbook.com. January 5, 2006.

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• He was sitting not far away, watching me, and I surprised a smile on his face, the first real smile I had ever seen him give, a smile that curved and softened the tight mouth, and warmed the ice-cool eyes; a smile that brought the blood to my face and made my heart turn over.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.338, Macmillan

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• Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

  Dean Koontz

  Courage, Kindness, Distance

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• Dead bodies are calm and silent—perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.

  Dan Wells

  Real, Moving, People

  Dan Wells (2011). “I Don't Want to Kill You”, p.34, Macmillan

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• What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.

  Richard Yates

  Honesty, Sorry, Thinking

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