Quotes About Closeness

Stay near to me and I'll Stay near to you – As near as you are dear to me will do.

I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and I thought everybody lived like that.

I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.

We are very close as a family. There are uncles and aunts for whom I would stand in front of a truck.

At all times we are either in fear or we are in love. We are either open or we are closed. Expansive or contracted.

We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.

I fly close to my man, aim well and then of course he falls down.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Us is the seat of closeness. You and me is the seat of adversarial contest. You and me is great when you are confronting a tiger, but less so when you are confronting your spouse, your boss, or your child.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

Part of the oddity of marriage, she thought, was in how unwise it was to attend too intently to the other person. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it's the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them.

We shall get on famously...and be capital friends forever.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

Sometimes you can just date without needing love, date for companionship, for passionate make-outs, for snuggling.

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give confirmation and support, and to reach consensus. They try to protect themselves from others' attempts to push them away.

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.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.