Home » Quote » Martin Heidegger » „Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.“ „Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.“ — Martin Heidegger Tags:Distant Related quotes „Distant or near,in joy or in sorrow,each in the othersees his true helperto brotherly freedom.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant…“ — Rainer Maria Rilke „We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows — not even God.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „… he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.“ — Thomas Wolfe „Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.“ — W. H. Auden „He knows how what is distant lies in what is near. He knows where the wind proceeds from. He knows how what is minute becomes manifested. Such a one, we may be sure, will enter into virtue.“ — Confucius „The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still,and his tune is heard on the distant hill,for the caged bird sings of freedom.“ — Maya Angelou
