Closeness Quotes · Page 2

“Closeness isn't just an absence of distance, it means actively eliminating it.”

— David Glattauer

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

— Peter Breggin

“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We don't understand how much those small moments of closeness mean to us until they're taken away.”

— Cassia Leo

Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.

— Neil Kurshan

Women, understand that sex does not always equate to love, it just equates to a false sense of emotional closeness.

— Enhance Dreams

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

— William Shakespeare

“With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone…

— Larry Watson

“We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no…

— James Marcus

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will…

— Linda McCartney

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually…

— Susan Cheever

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

— Patrick Califia

“Children who experience anxious or ambivalent attachments to their primary caregivers may "fall in love" too easily, seeking extreme closeness right off…

— Adam Cash

One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of…

— Ken Gillespie

“Instead, we were together in the non-sensorial place, almost like we were inside the other’s consciousness, a closeness that real life with…

— John Green

The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore. The relationship…

— Benoit Lecomte

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional…

— Anne LaBastille

“Ideas aren’t helping you anymore, Sera. Concepts have run their course. Paradigms pop. Theories leak. Techniques are only top-offs. Beliefs brush away.…

— Sera Beak

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are…

— Germaine Greer

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven…

— Ann Patchett

When I am with French people, I am not aloof because I belong to them. My view is that the French president…

— Emmanuel Macron

[ Donald Trump is] candidate who said he has more confidence in Vladimir Putin's strength than in Barack Obama's strength. His closeness…

— E. J. Dionne

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

— Martha Beck

'The Federalist' is a small staff, and our close-knit family of senior contributors outwork our competition because of that closeness.

— Ben Domenech

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

— Mallory Ortberg

“How vast, how extensive the boundary of your company, and the magnificence of your affection.”

— Sanu Sharma

The closeness of people has nothing to do with the miles between them.

— Laura S

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

— Carrie Fisher

“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

“You need no other friend if you already have just one friend who truly deserves to be called a friend.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I have never met a couple with such integrity, such closeness as those two. They comprised their own little universe.”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having…

— Yann Martel

“Becoming more deeply connected with those you admire and love bolsters, in you, the traits you most admire in them.”

— Kare Anderson

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to…

— Magnus

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

— Frank Fools Crow

Distance between two persons is the bridge of closeness but too much closeness between two persons becomes the bridge of distance.

— Anonymous

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Cormac McCarthy