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Quotes About Close

Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices, and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.
~ Henrietta Newton Martin
She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me.
~ E. Leo Foster, The Exiles
He leaned in close. He saw his father's dirty hands. He spoke the last familiar words in a whisper. Its' fixed.
~ Mitch Albom
I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair, and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
~ Mitch Albom
At certain moments, when death is close, the veils pull back between this world and the next. Heaven and earth overlay. When they do, it is possible to glimpse certain souls already departed. You can see them awaiting your arrival. And they can see you coming.
~ Mitch Albom
I lie on my belly and embrace the fleshy ground, to get closer to my love. My cheeks become wet with tears, or maybe it's just sweat rising out of the skin below me. I drift into sleep, absorbing the sound of Stacy's heartbeat vibrating through my entire body.
~ Carlton Mellick III
They didn't want to get too close to the crazy woman, since scientists hadn't yet proved whether crazy, like stupid, is inherited or contagious. The
~ Carolyn Brown
They didn't want to get too close to the crazy woman, since scientists hadn't yet proved whether crazy, like stupid, is inherited or contagious.
~ Carolyn Brown
fury is unleashed more freely against those you are most close to . . . so close that there is the trust that anger and ugliness will be forgiven.
~ Carson McCullers
Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
~ Don Bluth
We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
~ Thomas Bernhard
love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)
~ Thomas Hardy
Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
~ Thomas Hardy
MARG: You are so close. STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.
~ Katie Price
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
~ Kay Knudsen
For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)
~ Keith Ablow
The guy tells me evil hones in on those closest to redemption.
~ Ken Bruen
Oh, sure, I've come close to dying a few times, but usually I was having so much fun at the time that I barely noticed the danger.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Perhaps I have now said enough to show how I came increasingly to disagree with "free" association as Freud first employed it: I wanted to keep as close as possible to the dream itself, and to exclude all the irrelevant ideas and associations that it might evoke.
~ C.G. Jung
But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.
~ Gayle Forman
All theorizing is flight. We must be ruled by the situation itself and this is unutterably particular. Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to crawl under the net.
~ Iris Murdoch
Privacy is a luxury of the well-to-do because most Chileans have none. Middle-class families and below live in very close quarters, in many homes several people sleep in the same bed. When there is more than one room, the dividing walls are so thin that every sigh comes right through.
~ Isabel Allende
At the time, I was living pretty close to Ground Zero. I had to grab some necessary equipment, put it in my backpack, and flee the immediate proximity on my bike.
~ Mike D