108 Quotes About Closeness

When someone is close by, you just know it.

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.

Proximity and closeness are not the same.

The extraordinary-looking pair of young people weren't holding hands, but the way they tilted ever so subtly toward each other made it clear that they didn't have to touch to feel the other. Even the air between them crackled with a kind of magnetism that had yet to be discovered by science, but that poets had been writing about since the dawn of time.

There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, with amazement and horror, about the sad and senseless confusion of life, that one could love in vain, that people who meant well toward each other should work out their destinies separately, each one going his own inexplicable way, and how each would like to help and draw close to the other and yet was unable to do so, as in troubled meaningless dreams.

I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.

Everything that is, to us, almost obscenely close, sometimes through our observation, although undeservedly, constantly provokes and nourishes a sneer.

Still, we've attempted to argue when necessary; you've got to be able to let loose and even lose your temper a bit if you're finding it hard to breathe. Closeness has to be like running water; it mustn't stagnate and sour.

You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer.