#distant

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #distant #ego #may #more

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#distant #enemy #gate #preferable

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#cherish #day #distant #far #hope

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#distant #eternal #love #love is #night

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#art #beginning #culture #distant #early

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#beloved #bishop #christ #distant #english

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. ↗

— Robert Plant

#darkness #distant #feel #front #great

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#distant #picnic #sound #thunder

There are charms made only for distant admiration. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#charms #distant #made #only