Afar Quotes - Page 2

• Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Past, Cities

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.211, Booklassic

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• I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Mean, Men, Brain

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• The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Moon, Views, Space

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• All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Smell, Bird

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Heart, Support

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• Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

  James Russell Lowell

  Skirts, Praise, Graves

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.67

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• Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
  For lovers love the western star.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Life, Stars

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.31

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• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Character, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1839). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.2

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

  Gautama Buddha

  Night, Arrows, Shining

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• I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Xmas, Home, Holiday

  Edward Rowland Sill (1972). “The Poetical Works of Edward Rowland Sill”

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• ...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

  Thomas Hardy

  Distance, Hands, Suffering

  Thomas Hardy (1995). “Thomas Hardy: Three Great Novels”, JG Press

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• The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Night, Sorrow

  "To - : One word is too often profaned" l. 13 (1824)

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• When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't.

  Josh Hartnett

  Wish, Fantasy, Wish You

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• Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Beauty, Beautiful, Moving

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• Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

  Confucius

  Complaints, Strict

  Confucius (1996). “Le Lun Yü en français”

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• Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Flower, Eye

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Roads Go Ever On”

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• I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.

  Gena Showalter

  Narcissism

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.43, HQN Books

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• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Heart, Sea

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• The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

  Ann Brashares

  Haunting, Way, Accepted

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• And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice, will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.

  Alan Lightman

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Memories

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.46, Vintage

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• In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Letting Go, Forever, Enough

  Cynthia Leitich Smith (2010). “Tantalize”, p.310, Candlewick Press

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• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To”

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• The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

  Ben Elton

  Book, Ignorance, Keys

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• And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Physicians, Disease, Prudent

  "Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents".

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