Closeness Quotes

Closeness Quote of the day

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

...remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart.

When someone is close by, you just know it.

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.