Quotes About Proximity

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

I live in my neighborhood. My neighborhood consists of the dry cleaner, the subway stop, the pharmacist, the supermarket, the cash machine, the deli, the beauty salon, the nail place, the newsstand, and the place where I go for lunch. All this is within two blocks of my house. Which is another thing I love about life in New York: Everything is right there. If you forgot to buy parsley, it takes only a couple of minutes to run out and get it. This is good, because I often forget to buy parsley.

Can you stand a little closer? Hmm? You smell good. I like to smell you.

It's crowded, she murmured as her eyes laughed into his. The longer we're in here... His thighs brushed against hers as a toddler wiggled up to the glass. The fonder I am of snakes.

Through people locked together crotch to crotch, face to face, crotch to face, crotch to ass, and ass to face, I dig a pit.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

La muerte era desafío. La muerte era -por parte de personas que sentían la imposibilidad de alcanzar el centro que, místicamente, se les escapaba, que vivían una proximidad convertida en lejanía, un éxtasis desvirtuado, que se quedaban solas- un intento de comunicar. Había un abrazo en la muerte.

Couldn't get no closer and couldn't get no further away.

I cannot describe God in the same way that I cannot describe a picture I am holding millimeters from my eyes—the picture is made strange and unknowable not because it is distant but because it is so close.

They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertainty, quivering with irresolution. She might not be leaning into him, but she wasn't pulling away, either.

At his or her deepest level, the Sufi cares not for religions or mystical states (although these states and levels exist); his or her only aim is Proximity with the Beloved.

The Murid, to reach Proximity, must pass through the mystical desert of the Abyss.

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground—seconds away—thousands of miles away.

streets, came nearer and nearer.

Let the rose be neighbour with the thorn.

As for the stars, they were never ours to lose; the truth is, we've lost nothing but the illusion of their proximity.

If I hold you any closer I'll be in back of you!