Distant Friend Quotes:

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

- Washington Irving

source: Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

topic: Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye, I Ll Miss You, Losing Friends

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.

- Susan Polis Schutz

source: Susan Polis Schutz (1974). “Peace flows from the sky”, Blue Mountain Press

topic: Cute, Good Friend, Oneness, Lasting Friendship, Distant Friend

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

- John Masefield

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Soul, Longing, Long Distant Relationship, Distant Friend

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.196, Princeton University Press

topic: Letters, Bows, Opinion, Distant Friend, Salutations

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

- Paul Cezanne

topic: Friendship, Sun, Laziness, Distant Friend

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing, Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring; But Man alone has skill and power to send The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend; 'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

- George Crabbe

topic: Spring, Heart, Men, Distant Friend