Closeness Distance Quotes

#1. Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.

Anthony Liccione

#2. Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Henri Nouwen

#3. Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.

Ray Bradbury

#4. Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago ...

Scott Westerfeld

#5. I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#6. By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.

Hailey Giblin

#7. Immeasurable space.
Closeness.
The shortest distance between two women.

Kris Radish

#8. There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

Kami Garcia

#9. Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

Blaise Pascal

#10. The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.

Ann Landers

#11. In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#12. 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.

Peter Brook

#13. Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.

Elena Ferrante

#14. The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.

Robert Audi

#15. Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#16. He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.

Kiera Cass

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

Judith Viorst

#18. Maybe this is what we've needed all along. Distance from everything else, and closeness to each other.

David Levithan

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

Cormac McCarthy

#20. Feeling young and old at the same time is the present."

From FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood

Suzanne Braun Levine

#21. love is the strongest emotion. we never feels the distance. even at large distances apart from each other, both lovers will feel the closeness always.

Joseph Mathew

#22. In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.

Prince Andrew

#23. The professional ideal of "detached concern" among medical practitioners represents this blend of closeness and distance.1 Many physicians believe it is a prerequisite for effective patient care. But, much like oil and water, detachment and concern do not mix easily.

Christina Maslach

#24. We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

Ellen Goodman

#25. A man is only as effective as the effect he has on his surroundings,' Gordon was saying. 'And if a man is not effective, if his very being is as insubstantial as thought, then what is this man? Is he a man? Or is he merely the thought of a man?

Derek Landy

#26. But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.

Theodore H. White

#27. Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#28. The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

#29. The streets were more empty than usual - everyone who had someone was probably at home, cuddling them up, waiting for the bombs to fall or the shooting to start or the diseases to spread or just for the chips in their heads to catch viruses, melt, and drip out of their brains.

Mary Anne Mohanraj