You're So Close Yet So Far Away Quotes

#1. What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was tryin' to do

Rascal Flatts

#2. It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. I close my eyes as he finger-fucks me. I whimper, groaning his name. "Lorenzo."
Pulling his hand away, he reaches for me, and I open my eyes in just enough time to see it as his fingers brush against my mouth. My lips part, and he pushes his fingers in, the taste of both of us on my tongue.

J.M. Darhower

#4. Do you know what happens when a star dies ... It doesn't just disappear. It turns into this black hole, this giant energy-sucking mass that doesn't just collapse in on itself; it takes away any light that comes close down with it.

GLEE CAST

#5. I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#6. Is that why you push people away?" he whispered. "So they can't get close enough to hurt you when they're gone?

Jodi Picoult

#7. Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

Stella Blum

#8. He leaned down and ran his tongue over one side of my face, licking the wetness away. "The sweetest flavor on my tongue is your tears." He pulled back slightly, his face so close, his warm breath brushing along my cheek. "And you'll give me more of them, so much more before our time is done, Sofia.

Jenika Snow

#9. Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

Anneli Rufus

#10. Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean...

[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young]

Samuel Hall Young

#11. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.

Krista Scott-Dixon

#12. I felt at one and the same time quite close, within reach of my hand, and yet an infinite distance away, an unknown world of goodness. Often Isa had said to me: 'You, who see nothing but evil ... You, who see evil everywhere ... ' It was true, and it was not true.

Francois Mauriac

#13. Maybe I'm just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.

Ai Yazawa

#14. If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

Stuart Rothenberg

#15. The greatest performances where when fingertips took away a very thin veil between people and uncovered the universe in its entirety.

Peter Hoeg

#16. My eyes adored ya
Though I never laid a hand on you
My eyes adored ya
Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya
So close, so close and yet so far

Frankie Valli

#17. Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.

Carole King

#18. The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

Bruce Barcott

#19. So far away and yet you feel so close.

Pearl Jam

#20. Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.

Sarah McLachlan

#21. She turned and walked away, and Thomas sat there, hoping his face hadn't flushed bright red when he remembered her being close to him in the Underneath.

James Dashner

#22. I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Fran Drescher

#23. I keep staring, and I wonder why we push people away. There are a thousands reasons, really, but I think the biggest one - the most important one - is if we don't, they get close. And then they can see.

Kelsey Sutton

#24. As always, I was too aware of Edythe sitting close enough to touch, but still so far away she might as well have been a product of my imagination.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

Paulo Coelho

#26. He's close enough to touch and too far away to reach.

Sarah Noffke

#27. This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.

Tahereh Mafi

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The end is soon ... I feel it. If you're close, run away, far, hide, do whatever you can. Who knows if we'll be safe.

Alysha Speer

#31. You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.

P.D. James

#32. It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.

Will Christopher Baer

#33. Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper, I know. I know.

Ann Voskamp

#34. Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

Sam Snead

#35. I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.

Courtney Schafer

#36. You know, unrequited love is very difficut? It's not just having this one-sided love of someone who's far away. Being close, talking daily, liking a guy who's constantly near me is harder than it would be under different circumstances.

Park So Hee

#37. What's funny about that office is it's entirely dependent on how close you are to the president, because the president decides what your role will be. If you get on with the president, that's great; if you fall out with the president, power can go away.

Armando Iannucci

#38. My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

T.I.