
I'm caught in colliding currents of confusion, so desperate so desperate so desperate to be close so desperate to be far away. —
Tahereh Mafi

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging. —
Michael Lewis

It'd been a long time since they'd been together, but as close as they were physically, they'd never been so far apart in every other way. —
Jennifer Faye

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. —
Mandy Patinkin

Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship. —
Steve Maraboli

For one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them? —
Parke Godwin

The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death —
Charles Dickens

stay too close
and she will leave.
stay too far
and she will leave.
distance is too delicate a thing. —
AVA.

What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals? —
Michael Gerber

The ocean is far below us, but the waves crash so loudly, sound close enough to drown us. —
Nina LaCour

YOU HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT DISTANCE BETWEEN PEOPLE. TOO CLOSE, AND THEY OVERWHELM YOU, TOO FAR AND THEY ABANDON YOU. —
Hanif Kureishi

Things were far from normal. They weren't even close. —
Jessica Sorensen

Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these. —
Dallas Willard

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade. —
Aeriel Miranda

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home. —
Fran Drescher

If things far away don't concern you, you'll soon mourn things close at hand. —
Confucius

The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes —
Soroosh Shahrivar

You might be far from Allah, but, He is close to you! Turn to Him and you will find Him. —
Suhaib Webb

As always, I was too aware of Edythe sitting close enough to touch, but still so far away she might as well have been a product of my imagination. —
Stephenie Meyer

You know, Britney is one of those women who looks good from afar, but up close she looks far from good. —
Liz Dodwell

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded. —
Marilyn Manson

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band. —
Rick Allen

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away. —
Benoit Mandelbrot

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths! —
Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States. —
Porfirio Diaz

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life. —
Soman Chainani

How close people could be to us when they had gone as far away as possible, to the edges of the map. How unforgettable. —
Paula McLain

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. —
Amy Bloom

The farther away, the closer the home becomes. —
Dejan Stojanovic

I fear you close by; I love you far away. —
Friedrich Nietzsche

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them. They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them. —
Oscar Wilde

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. —
John C. Maxwell

How can someone be so close to you and then so far away in the span of a single movement? —
Sarah McCarry

Dreams may seem far, but the steps we take are close. Focus on these steps and watch your dreams magically appear. —
Charles F. Glassman

They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender. —
Margaret Atwood

This is your punishment, so close and yet so far. Is this nice? —
E.L. James

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved. —
Nina George

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble. —
Krista Scott-Dixon

The sun is 91 million miles away;
not too far, not too close. Be like that —
Sarah Gorham

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in. —
Aaron Levie

If you believe getting close to being 50 is bad ... wait to see how one feels when getting far crom that age —
Luispa

You are never far removed from God's love and mercy. —
Jim George

Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. —
Marguerite Yourcenar

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far. —
Jonathan Safran Foer

The aunts' conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further. —
Zen Cho