Quotes of: Long-distance Keyword

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

The Gargoyle

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

GWG

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

The Horse and His Boy

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Heart's Blood

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

The Hobbit

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

House Made of Dawn

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.

From Here to Eternity

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Having Faith

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

The Haunting of Hill House

What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out?

The Blind Assassin

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

Between the Spark and the Burn

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

The Bad Beginning

You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.

Burning Bridges

A long-standing commitment to living in the present—because screw the past. She was a done deal. And screw the future cuz she was a fickle bitch.

The Backup Boyfriend

If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance.

Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

The Book of Disquiet

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

Before I Fall

A brick could be used to paint a mural of your favorite politician. It doesn’t matter how accurate it is, just so long as people can tell it’s a snake.  

Blanket

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

Book of Longing