By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher ranks and closeness by virtue of your hidden good deeds. And know that these two ranks, one cancels out the other. - Wuhayb ibn al-Wird
Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare. - Anthony Liccione
His closeness makes my heart beat faster, my skin tingle, my body want things it doesn't even know. - Teri Terry
Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends. - Tobias Wolff
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie Fisher
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. - William Shakespeare
Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn’t about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one. - Steve Maraboli
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him. - Robert M. Pirsig