Far Away Quotes - Page 21

• While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

  Pablo Neruda

  Writing, Gone

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.167, Macmillan

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• He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his body, it seemed so far away.

  Jack London

  Pain, Distance, Impact

  Jack London (2016). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.47, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete's eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her. He was. She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other's eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn't see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eye, House, Six

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• Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.

  Walt Disney

  Home, Cutting, Land

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• It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.

  Claudia Gray

  Two, People, Parent

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• The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

  Marian Keyes

  Men, High Heels, Sea

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• Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

  Marguerite Duras

  Giving Up, Love You, Forever

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• Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kings, Food, World

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away, despite her love for them. I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.

  Markus Zusak

  Kids, Swings, Guilt

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.173, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.

  Alice Hoffman

  Beautiful, Wise, Mother

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• I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Real, Gone, Saws

  Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

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• A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Memories, Voice, Suffering

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• I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Mean, Curves, Flying

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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• I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Eye, People

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Distance, Way, Minutes

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• The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.

  Gangaji

  Sublime, Usual, Alive

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• So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.

  Brian Greene

  Moving, Reality, Space

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• When we wake up to the fact that our thoughts touch the people we are thinking about, we are again asked to choose which thoughts we send out. If we send out the thoughts of the heart, we can heal, even if the person who needs healing is far away.

  Robert Moss

  Healing, Heart, Thinking

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• Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Past, Thinking

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• If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

  Spike Jonze

  Next Week, Next Day, Trying

  "Spike Jonze: Master of the Wild Things" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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• Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, and Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Children, Smart, Voice

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• Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

  Keith Johnstone

  Men, Self, Trying

  Keith Johnstone (2012). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.88, Routledge

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• If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Path, Destruction, Tyranny

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