Closeness Quotes

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

The closer he was the less confident I was.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other.

It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.

People are like chains, the closer they are, the stronger they become.

Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.

There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.

Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.

The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart.

It is always the one closest to you that hurts you the most.

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

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

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.