Quotes of: Far-away Keyword

You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.

Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.

The Pieces We Keep

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

Posthumous

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Poor White

Does your love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it seem to find me?

There You'll Find Me

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

I live there... Far above the song-filled clouds, where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare I live there.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.

This Book Has No Title

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

This Simian World

when life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Twilight

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

Water Bound

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

What Happened to Goodbye

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

When You Reach Me

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Wintersmith

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People often equate divorce with failure. No one wants to admit to failure, but sometimes it is inevitable. The alternative is a far worse option.

Wrong, for the right reasons

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

We Shadows

Sometimes you go so far in your life, you can’t get back though you know it’s not really your life.

Winter Solstice