And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal…

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…

— D. H. Lawrence

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

— John Heywood

“It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.”

— Robert Aickman

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

— Jessamyn West

We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

— Anonymous

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

— Francis Bacon

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

— Swami Vivekananda

One is always nearer by not keeping still,

— Anonymous

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done…

— Sigmund Freud

“(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not…

— Arthur Holitscher

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

— William Wordsworth

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to…

— Alan Moore

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

— George MacDonald

Nearer, my God, to Thee.

— Sarah Fuller Flower Adams