Top 180 Closeness Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

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

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

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. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

Mexico is very well positioned in the IT sector, thanks to our closeness to North America and how things are being developed in Silicon Valley.

Love is closeness.

True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes.

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

When you maintain a closeness with your fans, they are more forgiving when you make mistakes.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

On 'This Is England,' everyone is mates. The nice thing is that when you watch us, you're watching a gang. They're young, and they're adventurous. There's a real closeness there.

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.

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.

...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives.

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

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

That's been the key to the good success of Monaco - the closeness between the Grimaldi family and the Monegasques.

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.

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.

Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire him tremendously. Some years ago, he was in New York, and he gave an interview with The Times, and what he said was this: "In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can't be moved, and without the distance, you can't be amazed." Isn't that extraordinary?

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.

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.

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 nevertheless within one's reach.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.

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

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

The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

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

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.