Closeness Quotes

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

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and informational in our expressiveness - an exact antipode to the virtues of the soul. It is no wonder, then, that in an age of telecommunications - which, by the way, literally means distant connections - we suffer symptoms of the loss of soul. We are being urged from every side to become efficient rather than intimate.

~ Thomas Moore

No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.

~ Peter Høeg

Many of us have been taught to show caring by worrying about the other person, which doesn't truly create closeness because it prompts her to prove that everything is okay with her to ease your discomfort. In addition, we may try to show caring through advising or attempting to fix the other person's problems, which doesn't work for creating closeness because it places you in a superior position, the one who can fix things, seeding resentment in the other person.

~ Kira Asatryan

Her heart ached to be nearer him – to know that he would stay with her no matter what. She couldn’t imagine how she’d feel if he left – he’d become so necessary to her.

~ Emily Arden

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

~ Gail Carson Levine

She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn't want to love; not now, so she'll close the door and toss the key.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

~ Larry Watson

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds.I smile a little, and let myself go.

~ Veronica Roth

There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.

~ Jodi Picoult

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.

~ Yann Martel