Remoteness Quotes:

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.

- Nikola Tesla

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Blood, Ideas, Remoteness

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.

- Fred Bear

topic: Sky, Imagination, Challenges, Remoteness

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

- William Hazlitt

topic: Characteristics, Chaucer, Intensity, Remoteness

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.

- Martin Lewis Perl

topic: School, Parent, World, Remoteness

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.

- Lawrence M. Krauss

topic: Depressing, Self, Despair, Awe Inspiring, Purposelessness

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!

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Beautiful, Distance, Perspective, Languish, Perspective On Things

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.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Clouds, Long, Evil, Ineffable, Desolation

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.

- John Gimlette

source: Source: www.identitytheory.com

topic: Media, Feelings, Way, Remoteness

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.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

topic: Color, Darkness, Substance, Remoteness

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.

- Mark Twain

topic: Space, Sailing, World, Remoteness

In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

topic: Real, Knowledge, Temples, Remoteness

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

- Alice Meynell

topic: Change, Childhood, Mystery, Remoteness

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.

- Martin Heidegger

topic: Believe, Home, Opening Up, Spaciousness, Remoteness

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.

- Conrad Aiken

source: Gerald R. Barrett, Thomas L. Erskine, Conrad Aiken (1972). “From fiction to film: Conrad Aiken's Silent snow, secret snow”

topic: Moving, Sleep, Snow, Remoteness

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.

- Alexander Hamilton

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.117, Coventry House Publishing

topic: Blood, Ties, Political, Precarious, Remoteness

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.26, Ultramarine Publishing

topic: Home, Bored, Connections, Quasars, Remoteness

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.

- Pico Iyer

topic: Oddities, Worry, World, Peddling, Remoteness

No, he probably wouldn't mention it - except to another flier. Then they will talk for hours. They will re-create all the things seen and felt in that wonderful world of air: the sense of remoteness from the busy world below, the feeling of intense brotherhood formed with those who man the radio ranges and control towers and weather stations that bring the pilot home, the clouds and the colors, the surge of the wind on their wings.

- Percy Knauth

topic: Home, Men, Clouds, Wonderful World, Remoteness

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

topic: Nerves, Degenerates, Language, Tropes, Remoteness

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

- Buwei Yang Chao

topic: Surprise, Affair, Holes, Remoteness

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.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, memory: a memoir”

topic: Heart, Thinking, Drawing, Personal Matter, Radius

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.

- Johannes Kepler

topic: Moving, Sun, Common, Remoteness

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,-\-\feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy!

- Helen Hunt Jackson

source: Helen Hunt Jackson (2008). “Ramona”, p.323, Broadview Press

topic: Sky, Feet, Long, Remoteness

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."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Stars, Distance, Science, Proximity, Remoteness

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.

- Lawrence Millman

topic: Fall, Islands, Self, Photogenic, Lingering