Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

The Past is utterly indifferent to its worshippers.

The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial.

Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.

My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

We see our homeland more clearly when we are away from it than when we are in it.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.