Top 100 Close To Someone Quotes
#1. The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
Yasmin Mogahed
#2. I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
Elayne Boosler
#4. They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.
Carlos Salinas
#5. I wanted to know what it was like to lie next to a warm body, to feel close to someone sincere because sincerity is one of those rare human qualities that feels a bit like discovering a lost treasure. It is a rare commodity but once found, is absolutely priceless.
Fisher Amelie
#6. It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#7. The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.
David Levithan
#8. It isn't easy to trust or be close to someone when the person I love won't even follow his own heart.
Jodi Meadows
#9. Your heart weeps a little bit when you have to say goodbye to a crew you spend two months with, but when it comes to the part, when you live so close to someone for two months, it kind of fades away and then you see her again on screen later on.
Josephine De La Baume
#10. If you think that trusting someone - allowing them to help you by performing their own duties honorably - somehow makes you less, then it might be time to reexamine yourself. Start asking why you need to do everything. How can you really be close to someone if you never let them in?" "Forgive
Jodi Meadows
#11. But when I want to draw close to someone, and fully commit myself, then my misery is assured. Then I am nothing, and what can I do with nothingness? I must admit that your letter this morning (by the afternoon it had changed) arrived at just the right moment; I was in need of those very words.
Franz Kafka
#12. I'd grown to trust Mr. Bradshaw, even though he was the one who had taught me how to lie. Not to mention the day he lectured me on how to get close to someone to find out the truth about them, as if he was the ultimate expert. Nevertheless, I trusted him. I really did.
Embee
#13. Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.
Tana French
#14. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
Richard Bach
#15. Imagine Jesus today: He is leaning over, bending down close to someone who is hurt. He's listening. His eyes fill with tears as He hears that person's troubles. Then His hand gently brushes away a tear. He was hurt once too. He understands.
Max Lucado
#16. As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.
Peter Green
#17. Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.
Haruki Murakami
#18. Maybe I shouldn't trust him after all, just like he doesn't seem to trust me fully. Shit, is it always so hard to get close to someone?
Stephanie Witter
#20. The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
Henry Rollins
#21. People here aren't mean; they're not unsociable - it just hurts to get close to someone and then lose them
L.A. Weatherly
#22. A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.
Yehuda Berg
#23. As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone.
Billy Idol
#24. If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.
David Levithan
#25. If you stay too close to someone like Hitler, you are going to burn someday.
Mark T. Sullivan
#27. You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.
Kirsten Miller
#28. I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.
Alexander Skarsgard
#29. Nothing like an attempted murder to feel close to someone, right?
-Puck, Iron Fey Series
Julie Kagawa
#30. Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
Paulo Coelho
#31. It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant
Suzanne Collins
#32. You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.
Jenny Han
#33. Some hoarders choose to be alone because they have lost someone in the past. On the surface it looks like a hoarder wants to be alone, but the truth is the hoarder doesn't want to get close to someone else and risk another loss or death.
Matt Paxton
#34. A good thing about being so close to someone is that they know you so well. A bad thing about being so close to someone is that they know you so well.
Lindy Zart
#35. Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?
Nancy Garden
#36. He'd never been this close to someone, this wrapped up in something so needy and honest and raw. Death was waiting outside for both of them, but at least they finally got to know what it was like to feel this alive.
L.A. Witt
#37. When you've been close to someone it's hard when they start acting that way towards you.
One Direction
#38. That's what Old World love really is. To be so close to someone that our hearts are connected by a force stronger than the distance between us.
Eloise Dyson
#39. What is a friend if not someone you feel close to, someone you like being with, someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.
-Jeremy Malory-
Johanna Lindsey
#40. When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
Ian Somerhalder
#41. She took a sip from her water glass and marveled at how you could sit so close to someone and still have him be totally far away from you.
J.R. Ward
#42. The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.
Bernard Lagat
#43. The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
Ellen Hopkins
#44. Moving away from someone or something Is like taking a step back to see better when you are too close to capture the details.
Rajuda
#45. She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.
Tamora Pierce
#46. Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.
Soheir Khashoggi
#47. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
David Levithan
#48. For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would do if He were there. In a way, that's what being an instrument in all about ... to make it possible for His love to reach more of His children.
Barbara W. Winder
#49. Say a prayer and be that friend to those in despair. Love and Kindness can help keep someone going over the edge if they're standing close to it!
Timothy Pina
#50. Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.
Faraaz Kazi
#51. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?
Brent Jones
#52. But if someone had slowed him down, just slightly interrupted his course, maybe he could have gotten through that one nightmarish moment; maybe he would never get that close to it again.
Frederick Barthelme
#53. It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
Rafael Yglesias
#54. After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.
Sarah Dessen
#55. When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me
Margaret Jones
#56. We were created for intimacy, to connect with someone with heart, soul, and mind. Intimacy occurs when we are open, vulnerable, and honest, for these qualities help us to be close to each other.
Henry Cloud
#57. I guess the more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. So close and yet so far.
Robin Benway
#58. It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.
Louis Theroux
#59. You don't have to love someone to have sex with them.'
'I know that,' I say, trying to act like I'm not embarrassed for thinking love and sex are the same thing. I know they're not but I want them to be close enough to at least brush each other as they pass.
Cath Crowley
#60. Letting someone get that close to you only opens you up to more pain when they are gone.
Karen Lynch
#61. Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
Elizabeth Price Foley
#62. How can someone be so close to you and then so far away in the span of a single movement?
Sarah McCarry
#63. People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#64. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#65. Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do.
Miguel Ruiz
#66. It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.
Luigi Pirandello
#67. It's easy to watch someone else's life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.
Patrick Jones
#68. A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.
Mary Johnson
#69. When a beautiful woman accompanies
someone, and if she is seated so
close to him, isn't it enough for
him to feel romantic? #LIFE OF LOVE
Santonu Kumar Dhar
#70. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.
Rachel Cohn
#72. Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.
Jonathan Maberry
#73. It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.
Anthony Jeselnik
#74. But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.
Tim Burton
#75. There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.
Donald Johanson
#76. Never say anything about someone which, if called to testify, you are unable to repeat to the person's hearing or the hearing of the person's close friend. This will save you a lot of trouble in life.
Chikamso Efobi
#77. When you feel angry, there is no need to be angry against someone; just be angry. Let it be a meditation. Close the room, sit by yourself, and let the anger come up as much as it can. If you feel like beating, beat a pillow.
Rajneesh
#78. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.
Bernard Arnault
#79. Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.
Danny Glover
#80. Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
Rainbow Rowell
#81. What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.
Sarah Dessen
#82. It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
Lady Bird Johnson
#83. I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'
Gloria Steinem
#84. You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.
Marie Lu
#85. I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I'll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don't have that, you're not taking enough risks.
Taylor Kitsch
#86. My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him.
Jodi Picoult
#87. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
#88. Of course there's a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself to get close to anyone ever again? Never know the joy of loving someone for fear that it could end up in tears? My heart might stay safe, but it wouldn't be much of a life.
Chantelle Shaw
#89. It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
Dennis Lehane
#90. It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
Mother Teresa
#91. The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us
a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.
Ted Haggard
#92. Human beings are not houses - you don't walk in and say, 'Well, so long as we gut the kitchen and add a third bathroom, this could work,' or, 'It has no charm, but it's close to work and it's all I can afford.' No. You love them as they are, or you let them find someone else who does.
Sara Eckel
#93. When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.
Nicholas Sparks
#94. How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
Emanuel Ax
#95. I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted to be someone else. Then, once I decided that I really thought I was pretty cool, I wanted to see myself.
Drea De Matteo
#96. Forgiving someone who hurt you is hard as hell to actually do, but in the end, it brings you the kind of relief you need to move on. Like when you close a book, so you can open up a new one.
Abi Ketner
#97. I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
Candice Accola
#98. People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.
Donald Trump
#99. Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unless they did something really terrible to you, you remain friends. My real estate business is run by my best friend, who is an ex-girlfriend.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#100. The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.
Terry Eagleton