Distance Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Distance.
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“In notes by distance made more sweet.”
“Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires.”
“Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.”
“Sweetest melodies.
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.”
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“Love is like a landscape which doth stand
Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.”
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“'T is distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
“As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.”
“DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.”
“We're charm'd with distant views of happiness,
But near approaches make the prospect less.”
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.”
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”
“From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this war is for.”
“From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace
They're the songs of every man.”
“From a distance, there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man.”
“ I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;
But I've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future
His mercy shall clear;
And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”
“Already, the distance between what I was and am is insurmountable — like an ant contemplating the Cosmos.
I knew it would be so … yet still I hoped.
I guess there is really nothing left to say.”
“By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.”