Virginia Woolf Quotes

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

Friendship is communion.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

What brings two people together anyway?

We need to be together, and love each other.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

My family's really close.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?