Top 100 Quotes About Nearer
#1. The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
David Mitchell
#2. Often when I imagine you your wholeness cascades into many shapes. You run like a herd of luminous deer and I am dark, I am forest. You are a wheel at which I stand, whose dark spokes sometimes catch me up, revolve me nearer to the center.
Anita Barrows
#3. The intuition of a deafened and isolated soldier often turns out to be nearer the truth than judgements delivered by staff officers as they study the map.
Vasily Grossman
#4. Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time ... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'
Harold B. Lee
#5. Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
#6. I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
Jacqueline Bisset
#7. There's nothing life can throw at us that God can't use to draw us nearer to him.
Kyle Idleman
#8. And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose.
C.S. Lewis
#9. Her voice drew him nearer and nearer like a siren leading a man to his doom.
Katie Ashley
#10. Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.
T.A. Barron
#11. Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits
and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Omar Khayyam
#12. The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
Alan Moore
#13. No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell
#14. I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Life seems far away from the balcony of your house; come down, come nearer to the life! Never let the life to be far away from you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.
Henri Bergson
#17. But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#18. None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
Tom Stoppard
#20. I daren't come and drink," said Jill.
Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.
Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."
There is no other stream," said the Lion.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
#22. For we see Abraham the readier to acknowledge himself but dust and ashes the nearer he approaches to behold the glory of the Lord,
John Calvin
#23. You don't need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive.
Wallace D. Wattles
#25. Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.
Swami Vivekananda
#26. Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
Deepak Chopra
#27. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#28. We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.
Rumi
#30. If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
Louisa May Alcott
#31. Earth may embitter, not remove,
The love divinely given;
And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
The immortality of love,
And lead us nearer heaven.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#32. I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#34. I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"
Steven Wright
#35. Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
Henry Moore
#36. Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.
Stephen Richards
#37. The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.
Orison Swett Marden
#39. She left the window - and I said to myself, The lady is dark. She moved forward a few steps - and I said to myself, The lady is young. She approached nearer - and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words failed me to express), The lady is ugly!
Wilkie Collins
#40. A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish
#41. Sweetheart, when you walk my way,
Be it dark or be it day;
Dreary winter, fairy May,
I shall know and greet you.
For each day of grief or grace
Brings you nearer my embrace;
Love hath fashioned your dear face,
I shall know you when I meet you.
Frank Lebby Stanton
#42. I confess that I am often lost in all the dimensions of time, that the past sometimes feels nearer than the present and I often fear the future has already happened.
Deborah Levy
#43. Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.
Hilda Doolittle
#44. God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours ... Do not be afraid.
George MacDonald
#45. Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#46. There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact ... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.
Emily Carr
#47. I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
Quentin Blake
#48. Under the gas lamps, mist pawed at the windows of the closed shops, which became steadily shabbier nearer home. It was such a smooth ruination that he could have been walking forward through time, watching the same buildings age five years with every step, all still as a museum
Natasha Pulley
#49. All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise.
Naomi Novik
#50. I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I'll be square one.
Racquel McDonnell
#51. My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396
Hans Werner Henze
#52. The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.
Herbert Hoover
#54. But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.
John Milton
#55. The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.
Max Lucado
#56. It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#57. It is worth ascending unexiting heights if for nothing else than to see the big ones from nearer their own level.
Nan Shepherd
#58. The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
Alberto Giacometti
#59. Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#60. Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience ... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth."
Karl Popper
#61. As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
#62. And so the doubts begin... Our doom draws nearer, and every man sees it. A strange thing, death. Far away, you can laugh at it, but as it comes closer it looks worse and worse. Close enough to touch, and no one laughs.
Joe Abercrombie
#64. Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
Dogen
#65. Since, by your greatness, you
Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.
Cyril Tourneur
#66. Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.
John Flavel
#67. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
A.W. Tozer
#68. A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
Simone Weil
#69. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith
#70. Lane tipped his head nearer so their foreheads gently touched. "I want you more than I've wanted anything in my life," he said, his voice low and husky. "More than I thought it was possible to want.
Barbara DeLeo
#71. Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
Brother Lawrence
#73. A daughter grows older and draws nearer to her mother, until she gradually overlaps her like a sewing pattern. But a son becomes some irreparably separate thing.
Brit Bennett
#74. Catherine usually sat by me, but to- day she stole nearer to Hareton; and I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility.
Emily Bronte
#75. The Book of Mormon is the most correct of any book on this Earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than any other book.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#76. The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
Cyril Connolly
#77. Superficially it may appear that I am more interested in books than in people; but I think it nearer the mark to say that I am more interested in people as they are revealed to me in books than as they reveal themselves to me in daily contact.
Vincent Starrett
#78. I try and picture you reading this
there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.
Elise Valmorbida
#80. I do not love thee less for what is done,
And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
My love will have a sense of pity in it,
Making it less a worship than before.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#81. God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
Martin Buber
#82. Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
Swami Vivekananda
#83. The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
#84. I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again
Mikhail Lermontov
#85. The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
Martin Buber
#86. The brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#87. Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#88. The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...
Simone De Beauvoir
#89. The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.
Maxim Gorky
#90. Less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvelous and yet not strange.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.
Joseph Addison
#92. Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world:
it seems rather to enlarge it ...
Olive Schreiner
#93. Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
Arthur C. Clarke
#94. The light in the gallery changed subtly and he whirled and saw someone approaching him from between the exhibit cases. The individual moved with alarming speed, bent low to the floor, but straightening as he or she drew nearer. Unfolding ...
Laird Barron
#95. Wendell Berry in "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer." "I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work." Ethan
Mark Sundeen
#96. If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
Sylvia Plath
#97. It was then that I could feel that the moths in him, with their wings so paper-thin, will never be near enough to the light. They will always want to be nearer - to be inside of it. It was then that I could feel the lost thing in him.
Ava Dellaira
#98. It's odd how lightly people speak about the future, as if they held it in their hand, as if it was in their power to push it further off or bring it nearer in accordance with the needs and expediencies of the moment.
Jose Saramago
#99. For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.
Stefan Zweig
#100. I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
Vigen Guroian
