Quotes About Closeness

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together.

From the time she was born, until she was fifteen, I didn't know where I left off and she began. We were joined at the hip or the heart or the brain.

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

cette tristesse [...] , je pourrais presque lui donner mon nom tellement elle me ressemble

J'éteignis la lampe, comme on la rallume après avoir fait l'amour.

ends up sleeping in your bed.

He had been, he thought, her friend, when in fact he had always been her entire world. Inside

Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.

You know what he said? He said that being away from me is less like being away from a person than being away from other people is. I don't know anyone else who would say something like that. And he was right. When we were apart, I missed him all the time, but he didn't feel faraway. He felt closer than the kids at school.... Certain people are like that, I guess. They're together no matter where they are. They just belong to each other.

To be next to her was to have everything.

She was inches from my face, really squinting , as if it were a section of a globe she'd never closely inspected before, an ocean filled with strings of unnamed islands.

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it's true that nothing matters more to us than that.

Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

We observe few objects really closely. As we walk on the earth, we observe the external events at two or three arms' lengths. If we ride a horse or drive in an automobile, we are further separated from the immediate surround. We see and photograph scenery; our vast world is inadequately described as the landscape. The most intimate object perceived daily is usually the printed page. The small and commonplace are rarely explored.

The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.

Le persone sono lontane quando ci stanno accanto, figurarsi quando sono lontane davvero.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

And I'd like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances.

Mogo?e je imela prav, mogo?e se mu je res gnusila. Ampak gnus ni razlog za lo?itev, gnus je obenem najvišja stopnja intimnosti. Kon?na to?ka intimnosti. V kar se intimnost neizogibno razvije. Doma?nost gnusa, njegova nespremenljivost, poželenje, ki jo izzove. Hrepenenje, da bi se ti drugi še zadnji? lahko zagnusil. In da bi se pri tem vedno malo gnusil tudi samemu sebi.