„… 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

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„The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing…' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.“
— Douglas Adams
„Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.“
— Martin Heidegger
„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
„And other spirits there are standing apartUpon the forehead of the age to come;These, these will give the world another heart,And other pulses. Hear ye not the humOf mighty workings in a distant mart?Listen awhile ye nations, and be dumb.“
— John Keats
„Distant or near,in joy or in sorrow,each in the othersees his true helperto brotherly freedom.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer