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Distant Quotes

Quotes on distance in death, love, and time.

One striking line calls Death the sound of distant thunder at a picnic, framing mortality as something felt before it's fully seen. Another laments the flight of people to increasingly distant suburbs.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Picnic
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Nov 07, 2020

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

Flight
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Nov 07, 2020

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

Quotes by Jane Byrne

Most
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Nov 07, 2020

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Quotes by Georges Bataille

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Quotes by Frans Lanting

Enemy
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Emil Cioran

Nov 07, 2020

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

Nov 07, 2020

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Quotes by Andy Rooney

Love appears as a distant possibility in one quote, while another situates Biodiversity across a distant past reaching toward the future, a perspective worth revisiting Always.

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