Closeness Quotes - Page 2

• That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?

  Jennifer Haigh

  Mother, Sacrifice, Men

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• Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Great Love, Humans, Human Beings

  Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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• The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

  C. S. Lewis

  Marriage, Real, Impact

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Buddhist, War

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• ...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

  Anne Tyler

  Son, People, Doe

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

  Ken Gillespie

  Dog, Intellect, Painter

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• A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

  John Irving

  Jobs, Memories, Writing

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

  Martha Beck

  People, Essentials, Different

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• We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

  Linda McCartney

  Moving, Weekend, Boys

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• I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

  Magnus

  Persons, Happens, Knows

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• I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
  To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mind, Neglect

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.32

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• I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Earthquakes, People

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• Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend.

  Cassandra Clare

  Best Friend, Brother, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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• To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

  Sissela Bok

  Self, Growth, Realizing

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage

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• I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Hypnosis, Canvas

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• Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just
  what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.

  Robert Adams

  Views, Stuff, Skirts

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• They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Mind, Literature

  1869 Of Trevelyan's paranoia about his wife's fidelity. He Knew He Was Right, ch.38.

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• What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Mirages, World

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• Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Anxiety, Want

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

  Theodore White

  Power, Men, Dignity

  Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”

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• If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

  Patrick Califia

  Real, Communication, Desire

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.

  Frank Fools Crow

  Thinking, Giving, Remember

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• If you unite a couple on a joint fight, the question is, "Does it unite them literally, or does it weaken their love?" And if it weakens their love, is that true love? And if this is true love, then you know they should be united by their separation. It's their fight that brings them emotionally together while they're physically separated, and so, though there's physical separation, there is mental and emotional closeness.

  Amma Asante

  Couple, Fighting, Love Is

  Source: www.avclub.com

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