Quotes About Someone Close To You

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.

Lisa Bedrick

#5. When someone close to you dies, move seats.

Jimmy Carr

#6. It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

Francois Hougaard

#7. Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Master

Clara Diane Thompson

#8. I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Lee Grant

#9. There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

Jim Butcher

#10. 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

#11. You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.

Kirsten Miller

#12. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. But regardless of what you think of yourself, when I look at you, I see someone beautiful. Someone who makes me insane, because all I can fucking think about is touching you. Being close to you. Being inside you. And there's a reason for that, baby.

Santino Hassell

#14. I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in ... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all.

Robin Gibb

#15. I don't know anything about heartbreak, but I think that was something close, and I know the heart only breaks when you've given it to someone else. When you've trusted someone to care for it, keep it safe. When you're in love.

L.M. Turner

#16. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Sarah Dessen

#17. Just seeing other people, people getting on with their normal lives, is such a hard thing after you've lost someone so close to you.

Jennifer Shaw Wolf

#18. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.

Jenny Han

#20. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#21. I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Julia Child

#22. I'm going to ask you to do something that may feel even more painful: when you get close to becoming engaged, put any public announcement on delay for a few weeks and spend several sessions talking through all these issues again with someone else present.

Gary L. Thomas

#23. I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox,
-Jace

Cassandra Clare

#24. If you hug someone goodbye and their response is what the hell are you doing? - you may want to examine you're definition of close friend.

Dov Davidoff

#25. When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.

Alison Pill

#26. Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.

Marie Lu

#27. In truth, if it isn't to save your life when it's in imminent danger, someone yelling at you is just plain wrong. The same is true for ranting or bitching. The same goes double for anything even close to manhandling.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#28. If you stay too close to someone like Hitler, you are going to burn someday.

Mark T. Sullivan

#29. 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

#30. The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.

Mark Shields

#31. When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

Stephen Baxter

#32. It's not only just difficult but very complicated to loose someone very close to you, the person goes away but the void remains to kill the living until they learnt to let go.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#33. This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Madeleine L'Engle

#34. The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.

Julian Barnes

#35. Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

Patrick Modiano

#36. It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox

Shelby Foote

#37. There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

Morgan Freeman

#38. God will put someone in your life to say, don't look back there anymore. There is so much more in front of you than behind you.

Nakia R. Laushaul

#39. When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.

Richard Branson

#40. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

George Carlin

#41. Look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

David Levithan

#42. 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

#43. He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

Sarah Dessen

#44. We all make mistakes. There's a place we can take those to. There's a thing we can nail them to." Her eyes close for a moment and she sees the cross in the shadows of the fading light. "You can nail it to the cross and let it go, Dan. You can let someone else take that burden.

Travis Thrasher

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.

Jodi Picoult

#48. And I realize now that that was ... that's the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you're loved, let it wash over you

Esther Earl

#49. If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

Shirley Temple

#50. Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.

Meghan O'Rourke

#51. We're built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.

Jimmy Iovine

#52. When you've been close to someone it's hard when they start acting that way towards you.

One Direction

#53. I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.

Jenny Han

#54. 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

#55. By the time I've finished with you,
you won't know whether you've been kissed or cut,
whether you were loved or butchered.
and either way you probably won't care,
just grateful you came close enough to touch.

Warsan Shire

#56. It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

Luigi Pirandello

#57. It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

Dennis Lehane

#58. Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

Tana French

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. How can someone be so close to you and then so far away in the span of a single movement?

Sarah McCarry

#70. Letting someone get that close to you only opens you up to more pain when they are gone.

Karen Lynch

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones

#77. 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

#78. The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.

Yasmin Mogahed

#79. Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?"
"I though it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house at night and throw up in his mailbox.

Cassandra Clare

#80. The only way you can really evaluate spiritual advancement is to see how someone treats those who are close to them.

Frederick Lenz

#81. If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

Jermain Defoe

#82. Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli

Tess Gerritsen

#83. And (b) Kissing someone so that you can get a free trip is perilously close to full-on hooking

John Green

#84. I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

Diogo Morgado

#85. Be careful how close you get to someone ... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

Andrew Galasetti

#86. Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

Haruki Murakami

#87. Sometimes it is better to have someone you mistrust close to you, so that you can keep an eye on him - Chiron

Rick Riordan

#88. The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

Catherynne M Valente

#89. I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

Peter Piot

#90. It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Barbara Mandrell

#91. You don't pick a fight when you're drunk."
"I had to punch someone in the face, Mark."
"So you picked up four-hundred pound tattoo-guy?"
"He did have awesome tats didn't he?"
"You would know. You got to see them up close while they were in your face.

Sam Hunter

#92. Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

Marguerite Duras

#93. Setting the guitar down, I stood and took a step forward to close the gap she'd created. "You need to get used to it. I don't want to be just someone to you. I want to be the only one. And I promise you, Maggie Malone, if you let me, I'll earn all of the pieces of you before I take a single one.

Pamela Sparkman

#94. You never understood what death meant until it calimed someone you were so close to. When it did, then you truly shook death's hands.

Holly Hood

#95. But sometimes, you need to close your eyes and jump and trust that someone will catch you.

Nina Croft

#96. If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.

Martha Stout

#97. 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

#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. 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

#100. How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

Emanuel Ax