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“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.”

Missing Friends Distance Alone Isolation Companionship Escape Missing Someone Disrespect I Miss You Apart Reticence Gap Intermission Breathing Space Remoteness Remote Interval

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“There is a reason the remote Pacific was the last place on Earth to be settled by humans: it was the most difficult, more daunting even than the deserts or the ice.”

Humanity Discovery Exploration Pacific Settlement Remoteness Polynesia

Book:Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Source: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

“Upon a branch of nothingness my heart sits trembling voicelessly, and watching, watching, numberless, the mild stars gather round to see.”

Poetry Detachment Remoteness

Book:Perched on Nothing's Branch

Source: Perched on Nothing's Branch

“It comforted her, in the confused unhappy welter of her emotions, to see the mountains always tranquil, remote, in their lonely splendour; untouchable, serenely inviolate. It was an obscure comfort to her to know that man's hectic world wasn't the only one — that there were others, where agitation and passion and bewilderment had no place. When her love turned into a chaotic fever-dream, in which she was tossing, hallucinated, frightened and miserable, she had longed to escape to the cold, austere, changeless beauty and peace of the snow.”

Beauty Comfort Tranquility Mountains Remoteness

Author:Anna Kavan

“I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's really on my mind about, say, the a priori presumption of the continuity of a motorcycle from second to second and do this without benefit of the entire edifice of the Chautauqua, they'd just be startled and wonder what's wrong. I really am interested in this continuity and the way we talk and think about it and so tend to get removed from the usual lunchtime situation and this gives an appearance of remoteness. It's a problem.”

Thinking Introvert Deep Thoughts Kant Remoteness Remote Introvert Problems Context Is Key

Book:Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set

Source: Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance and Siddhartha 2 Books Collection Set

“There are those who are meant for distance, my Ettore. I am one of them and I fear so are you. We are seekers of boundaries. If we are lucky, we will chance upon those generous enough to be drawn into our fold. Your mother has done this for me. [LEO NAVARRA, in a letter to his son Ettore]”

Grace Remoteness

Book:The Shadow King

Source: The Shadow King

“Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."”

Hands Science Speak Heaven Stars Concerned Distance Kingdoms Boast Terrific Closeness Kingdom Of Heaven Proximity Remoteness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but those most violently which are nearest, and that it languishes in some sort and grows weaker at the most distant, because of the remoteness and the attenuation of the virtue.”

Moving Grows Common Sun Virtue Planets Rounds Languish Remoteness

Author:Johannes Kepler

“The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.”

World Way Believe Home Lasts Grace Limits Gains All Things Insight Opening Granted Realms Scope Doom Absent Protective Tangible Concealed Opening Up Lingering Spaciousness Remoteness

Author:Martin Heidegger

“My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.”

Heard Surprise Affair Holes Needles Housework Remoteness

Author:Buwei Yang Chao

“The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.”

World Way Facts Seems Worry Selling Code Thrive Mates Facts Of Life Visitors Nonconformity Oddities No Worries Remoteness Peddling

Author:Pico Iyer

“Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one”

Ifs Want Feels Home Fantasy Connections Bored Complexity Dislike Aesthetic Remoteness Quasars

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

Form Darkness Movement Color Painting Ten Concerned Substance Brightness Remoteness

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.”

Way States Feelings Millions Media Areas Size Britain Remoteness

Author:John Gimlette

“I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.”

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

“I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.”

Helping Feelings Evil Mountain Ultimate Madness Abyss Slopes Ethereal Evil Things Remoteness

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

“Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my heart, from the tender nucleus of a personal matter- to monstrously remote points of the universe. Something impels me to measure the consciousness of my love against such unimaginable and incalculable things as the behaviour of nebulae (whose very remoteness seems a form of insanity), the dreadful pitfalls of eternity, the unknowledgeable beyond the unknown, the helplessness, the cold, the sickening involutions and interpenetrations of space and time.”

Source: Speak, Memory: A Memoir

“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.”

“The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever with great reason considered the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political connection.”

Reason Political Force Blood Politician Connections Everyday France Ties Links Spain Precarious Compact National Defense Remoteness

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.”

World Said Whole Moving Sleep Cold Becoming Screens Whole World Snow January Remoteness

Book:From fiction to film: Conrad Aiken's Silent snow, secret snow

Source: From fiction to film: Conrad Aiken's Silent snow, secret snow

“The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.”

Imagination Challenges Sky Mountain Wide Hunters Adventurous Kindles Remoteness

Author:Fred Bear

“The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.”

World Sometimes Hard Today School Pain Parent Deals Painful Remoteness

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.”

Inspirational Firsts Looks Ideas Causes Steps Blood Influence Calm Firm Height Climbs Anxious Discomfort Turmoil Dizzy Remoteness

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”

Writing Characteristics Intensity Elevation Milton Chaucer Remoteness

Author:William Hazlitt

“Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.”

World Science Space Sun Billions Exposed Roof Sailing Tents Colossal Remoteness

Book:Tales of Wonder

Source: Tales of Wonder

“Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!”

Humans May Beautiful Human Beings Perspective Horror Distance Beautiful Things Inventor Damp Huts Picturesque Languish Remoteness Perspective On Things

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.”

Source: Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda

“Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”

Ifs Turns Change Mystery Childhood Remoteness

Author:Alice Meynell

“After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.”

Mind Self Would Be Fall Steps Changed Thirds Increase Population Versions Islands Dozen Traveler Tribes Falling Down Pulse Lingering Photogenic Remoteness Emigrating

Author:Lawrence Millman