Welcome to Closer Quotes, where we delve into the depths of human connection, intimacy, and the beauty of closeness through the eloquence of words. Throughout history, poets, authors, philosophers, and individuals from all walks of life have sought to capture the essence of closeness in its myriad forms, from the tender embrace of a loved one to the unspoken bond between kindred spirits. In this curated collection of quotes, we explore the rich tapestry of sentiments and reflections that illuminate the significance of closeness in our lives. Whether it’s the warmth of a shared moment or the comfort found in the presence of another, these quotes invite us to ponder the profound impact of closeness on our relationships, our emotions, and our understanding of the world.
When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn’t work out. Mia Goth
I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. Saint Augustine
I don’t have a twin, but I do have a brother and sisters, and I do know that there is a special bond there that is – I’m going to say – closer. It’s different. It’s closer than having a best friend. It’s easier to forgive them. I think it’s also easier to get mad at them. You feel a little piece of yourself in them. Justin Hartley
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements. Andrew J. Bernstein
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. Bruce Lee
The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer. Jon Jones
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Gerald Brenan
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Albert Ellis
Challenge yourself, grow, blossom, and become who you were meant to be. Don’t ever stay at a job solely out of convenience or comfort. Aim higher, even if that means pursuing another job that’s just one step closer to your ultimate goal. Carolyn Aronson
I don’t like to think of goals I set at the new year as resolutions. I like to think of them as summits on my personal mountain. Each year gets me closer to the dreams I want to achieve, and the goals are those benches to sit and enjoy the view along the way. Stephanie Land
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth
The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes – but that’s the same with any creative outlet. Tess Gerritsen
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. David Hockney
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. Jack Canfield
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough. Barbra Streisand
As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning. Janis Joplin
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs. Henri Nouwen
If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer. Rob Corddry
I’ve felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to – I don’t know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything. Adrianne Lenker
This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles. Thurgood Marshall
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit. Piet Mondrian
We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. Ronald Reagan
The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. Montgomery Clift
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. Mark Zuckerberg
I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean. Kurt Cobain
The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in ‘The Outsiders’ is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It’s an everyman story. S. E. Hinton
Don and I are infamous for our split, but we’re closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love. Phil Everly
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you’ll find many of them are unwise. Andrew Young
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It’s that resource within each of us which allows us to reach ever closer to our full potential, and which also enables us to be resilient in the face of adversity. Vivek Murthy
It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer. Kobe Bryant
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason. Elie Wiesel
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. Napoleon Bonaparte
I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that. Cote de Pablo
Hip-hop – it’s the safari: it allows people who aren’t under those circumstances to come closer to inner-city life, to explore it without actually being in danger. It’s something kids in middle America indulge in to be rebellious. Curtis Jackson
If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it’s worth every penny. Rachel Roy
I don’t think I’ve ever really been a science fiction writer. I’m closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can. Harlan Ellison
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don’t share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don’t share your views. Ishmael Beah
For anyone who right now is hurting, for anyone who feels beneath a baseline, feels so isolated and lonely, know that you are not alone. First and foremost, you have a God that is going to sit closer than a brother. Paula White
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. Louis Kronenberger
If we don’t make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. Louis Farrakhan
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm. Annie Leibovitz
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. bell hooks
It’s hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It’s my family. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer. John F. Kennedy Jr.
I’m a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It’s harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It’s not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice. Nancy Pickard
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. Franz Marc
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. Thomas Jefferson
Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids. Chris Rock
Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter. Victor Hugo
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. Karl Kraus
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. Eyvind Johnson
I appreciate being a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and playing in the NFL a little bit more each and every day because I realize I’m one day closer to never doing this again. Jason Kelce
I dispute that ‘Closer’ is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. Patrick Marber
I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. Anne Frank
Where there’s water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it’s bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology. Neil deGrasse Tyson
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor W. Adorno
A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It’s also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends. Rachel Simmons
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. Carl Rogers
I am trying to get closer to God. Lenny Kravitz
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. Anne Rivers Siddons
I don’t think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it’s going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we’re currently doing in the real world. Palmer Luckey
You’ve got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don’t mean driving, either. Dale Earnhardt
The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy. Robert Baden-Powell
Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth. Susan Barker
My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world. Majora Carter
The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite. Aaron Sorkin
Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in. Gord Downie
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about. Josh Turner
You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. Sol Wachtler
I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It’s just moving on with its efforts. Benjamin Netanyahu
With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them – with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the ‘reasoned judgment’ of a bare majority of this Court – we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence. Antonin Scalia
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other. Marvin Sapp
I want to play real people. Real women. I want to be where the fun is – closer to humanity. Faye Dunaway
If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened – good, bad, ugly, no matter what – I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart. Ruby Bridges
One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land. Helena Norberg-Hodge
Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can’t stop. John P. Kotter
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger. DMX
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes. George MacDonald
Like I always tell people, Buffalo is closer to Toronto than New York City. We an hour and a half away – that’s the next major city to us is Toronto. Buffalo’s connected to Canada. Westside Gunn
The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You’ll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man. Cheryl Hayashi
In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences. Jon Evans
The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem – which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel. Elliott Abrams
Language is much closer to film than painting is. Sergei Eisenstein
You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. Gijs de Vries
I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside. Yves Saint Laurent
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box. Adam Savage
At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings. Yolanda King
Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit. Cindy Morgan
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. Benoit Mandelbrot
Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over. Amanda Gorman
The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution. Kenneth Frazier
Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass. Joel Osteen
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. Michael Haneke
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I’d find to screw it up. Steven Pressfield
A lot of brands, you can’t touch them. When you’re dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it’s a part of you. Snoop Dogg
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. Maya Lin
