Closeness Quotes

122 quotes by 100 authors

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
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality 'of closed eyes,' but one of 'alertness,' one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become hurried,… — Donald L. Staheli
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... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms… — Pope John Paul II
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too… — Daniel Mendelsohn
We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive… — Deepak Chopra
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events,… — Ansel Adams
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put… — Orson Scott Card
Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment. — Peter Breggin
The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance. — Robert Audi
Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace. — Unknown Author
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… — Pope John Paul II
I think honestly, SOME people who think theyâ€™re gay, theyâ€™re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. Iâ€™m not… — Stevie Wonder
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.… — Rod McKuen
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. — Harriet Lerner
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a… — Michael Haneke
That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the… — Jennifer Haigh
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… — Sissela Bok

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