Closeness Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““What I value is the naked contact of a mind.”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closeness Human connection Mind Psychology Value
“Mind you, my identity is of no greater value than the dust under your feet. If there is anything valuable that I can offer,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Like no one else... you share that part of my mind that associates itself mostly with ideal things and places... The impression thinking about you gives me is very closely linked with that given me by a lonely hillside or a sunny afternoon... or books that have meant more to me than I can explain... This is grand, but still… — Vera Brittain Copy Share
“The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The mind is everything; you can go no higher than what you put into it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“for when a thing is enclosed, the mind does not willingly regard it as common.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind” — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
“How long has it been since you and me? Hugs and kisses. Blankets and snuggles. Our sparks smoldering without a fireplace. Losing time is… — 2019 Fidelis O Mkparu Copy Share Image
“I'd watch his smooth chest rise and fall with each steady breath, I'd watch the pulsating of his stomach when he laughed, and I'd never forget to make a comment or two about the wispy trail of grey fuzz that lined up perfectly centre with his body - and I thought that straight lines didn't exist in nature. "Look at… — Ashley Newell Copy Share
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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, repetitive, casual, or forgetful in our prayers, we tend to lose the closeness of the Spirit, which is so essential in the continual direction we need to successfully manage the challenges of our everyday lives.… — Donald L. Staheli Copy Share
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and… — Lisa Renee Jones Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
![“Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.” quote by Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3f/pope-benedict-xvi-414_closeness_faith-is-above-all-a-personal-intimate-e_149067.jpg)