Closeness Quotes
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Closeness Quotes & Sayings
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To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.
— Deepak Chopra
His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know.
— Teri Terry
With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.
— Larry Watson
You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. Colleen
— Jonathan Franzen
Together again, Marie and I swam out a ways, and we felt a closeness as we moved in unison and were happy.
— Albert Camus
You are closer to me than my breath,
— John Speed
My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
— Faith Prince
Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.
— Tobias Wolff
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
— Leo Tolstoy
Neither of us spoke. I closed my eyes. The closeness of her was the sweetest, sharpest thing my life had ever known.
— Patrick Rothfuss
True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.
— Dalai Lama
Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.
— Peter Breggin
Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.
— Shannon L. Alder
My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love."Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire — Shirley Hazzard
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.
— Ella R. Bloor
Don't trust anybody else - no matter how close you are to them. (Eric)
— Shannon A. Thompson
I gauge the closeness of my friends even now by how helplessly they can make me laugh.
— Barbara Quick
When two persons are too close, they fall apart.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It's the last residue of our closeness with God, I reckon, the ability to see the wonder of things.
— Celine Kiernan
Be careful how close you get to someone ... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.
— Andrew Galasetti
People can misconstrue closeness for love.
— Stevie Wonder
The feeling of closeness when we talked on the phone was too violent, and the void that came afterward too cruel.
— Michel Houellebecq
The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.
— Anthony Liccione
Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
— Theodore White
I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars, if I want to get to know butterflies
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Without knowledge, there can be no intimacy. Without closeness, there can be no knowledge. Without trust, there can be no closeness.
— Yonason Goldson
The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,
— Charles Dickens
What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.
— W.G. Sebald
Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.
— Christopher Paolini
There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.
— Amitav Ghosh
Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
— Judith Viorst
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
— Carrie Fisher
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
— Neil Kurshan
We don't understand how much those small moments of closeness mean to us until they're taken away.
— Cassia Leo
Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.
— Dominic Cooper
Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain
— Alice Jamieson
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
— Norman McLaren
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
— Mallory Ortberg
Maybe this is what we've needed all along. Distance from everything else, and closeness to each other.
— David Levithan
I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.
— Carolyn Ives Gilman
When someone is close by, you just know it.
— James Dashner
I didn't realize until now how starved I've been for human closeness.
— Suzanne Collins
There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
— Mavis Staples
The closer he was the less confident I was.
— Shannon A. Thompson
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
— Willie Stargell
Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.
— Anthony Liccione
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.
— Pope John Paul II
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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.
— Babette Deutsch
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing brings home closer than going home...
— Will Advise
Shewas afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness represented
a loss rather than a gain. — Mitsuyo Kakuta
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
— Harriet Lerner
Remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.
— Frank Fools Crow
She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home.
— Claire Vaye Watkins
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind.
— William Shakespeare
When pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
— Gloria Steinem
What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
— Virginia Woolf
My sister and I are so close that we finish each other's sentences and often wonder who's memories belong to whom.
— Shannon Celebi
Sometimes, people take for granted the closeness that they share when life is good and there's no need for friendship or support.
— Christine Brae
