Top 29 Quotes About Distance And Closeness
#1. 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
#2. Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.
Elena Ferrante
#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. The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.
Barack Obama
#5. Immeasurable space.
Closeness.
The shortest distance between two women.
Kris Radish
#6. 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
#7. I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, and so tidy. Unlike real life, which is often a mess.
Heather Vogel Frederick
#8. Mr. Kent raised his brows. "What are they asking?"
"For me to heal a little girl."
"My God, the brutes, the monsters," he mocked.
Tarun Shanker
#10. 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
#11. The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.
Robert Audi
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Before you tripped right into my life I would have said the same thing. But there's something different about you. I don't know what it is, but it wants to make me change every bad thing about myself.
K.A. Robinson
#15. Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
Judith Viorst
#16. Maybe this is what we've needed all along. Distance from everything else, and closeness to each other.
David Levithan
#17. I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
Cormac McCarthy
#18. You have to trust or you're only living half a life.
J.D. Robb
#19. 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
#20. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
Luis Walter Alvarez
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
Edgar Degas
#24. Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
Bashar Al-Assad
#25. When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. 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
#27. The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.
Nityananda Das
#28. So are there any asshole guys here I can start dating?' she says. 'That's, like, my pattern.
Gillian Flynn
#29. 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
