Nearness Quotes

“Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.”

“After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.”

“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.”

“But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, it is already “there” - and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one’s breath - and yet it is nowhere.”

“Not realizing that I craved his warmth, his nearness, until he was gone.”

“Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.”

“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”

“I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.”

“God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.”