Nearness Quotes

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points. — James Hansen

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you. — Charles Spurgeon

Sometimes you don't need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog. — Natalie Lloyd

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. — Charles Ives

... anything to avoid the uncomfortable nearness of strangers — David Arnold

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant. — Martin Heidegger

Since I met you, I've felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing. — Franz Kafka

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness. — Sandra Bowden

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness. — Charles Spurgeon

Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness. — Rabindranath Tagore

To his consternation, her nearness made him slightly out of breath. — Ken Follett

Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in. — Henry Miller

The night smelled like blackberry leaves and the ocean's nearness, something sweet and deep and full. — Deb Caletti

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives. — Jesse Ball

The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun. — Catherynne M Valente

the distance fills and nearness is a void — Donald Revell

There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he feels it, too. — Jennifer E. Smith

The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father. — James Carroll

I shall live here in the rains,
There in winter,
Elsewhere in summer, muses the fool,
Not aware of the nearness of death. — Gautama Buddha

The further from one another, the nearer one can be. — August Strindberg

Nothing brings home closer than going home... — Will Advise

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Sometimes the greatest moment of your life present itself in the form if a nearness to someone you love. — Ika Natassa

Not realizing that I craved his warmth, his nearness, until he was gone. — Sarah J. Maas

Their hands, swinging, touched lightly now and then; their nearness was as natural as the June day. — Elizabeth Bowen

Holding on for dear life, I was overcome with the perfect nearness of him, the ache of human solitude nearly conquered. — Jennifer DeLucy

Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies. — Dillon Burroughs

A door in my chest opens with an unfamiliar happiness. In my arms, there is an echo of his nearness, what it felt like to hold him. — Anna Smaill

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song. — Shannon Hale

Physical nearness does not necessarily breed intimacy. — Cristina Henriquez

There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly — Victor Hugo

Besides, our nearness to the King in love
Is near the hate of those love not the King. — William Shakespeare

Nearness to nature ... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. — Charles Eastman

What we notice in stories is the nearness of the wound to the gift. — Jeanette Winterson

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia

His nearness made my senses spin — Julie Kagawa

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king. — William Shakespeare

Lay claim to the nearness of God. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb. 13.5 NIV). — Max Lucado