Nearness Quotes (8 quotes)

“The further from one another, the nearer one can be.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy

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“With wine and being lost, with
less and less of both:

I rode through the snow, do you read me
I rode God far--I rode God
near, he sang,
it was
our last ride over
the hurdled humans.

They cowered when
they heard us
overhead, they
wrote, they
lied our neighing
into one of their
image-ridden languages.”
― Paul Celan, Glottal Stop

tags: god, language, nearness, poetry, wine

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“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love,
I am intoxicated beyond recognition.
Now, I only pray for the nearness of You
so I may advance in my annihilation.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: advance, annihilation, beloved, dervish, dregs, drink, drunk, faith, give-in, god, god-is-love, intoxicate, intoxicating, intoxication, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-is-love, love-wins, lover, nearness, one-love, pray, recognition, religion, religious, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, sufism, sufism-poems, sufism-quotes, surrender, togetherness, transcend, transcendence, union, unity

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“Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.”
― Margaret Feinberg, Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God

tags: christian, god, nearness

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“After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje

tags: distance, love-quotes, nearness, past, present, price, relationship

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“Xeno couldn't manage too much nearness. He was solitary and introverted, with an enthusiasm that people mistook for sociability. He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind, and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

tags: being-alone, closeness, introverts, nearness, people, relationships, solitude

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