Intimacies Quotes

#1. Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?

Ford Madox Ford

#2. Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Henry Taylor

#3. Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Sherry Turkle

#4. Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

William Shenstone

#5. So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

Will Self

#6. Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. There were only certain intimacies one could hope to survive.

Damon Galgut

#8. Audrey nodded warily. She had never cared for conspiratorial female conversation of this sort. Its assumption of shared preoccupations was usually unfounded in her experience, its intimacies almost always the trapdoor to some subterranean hostility.

Zoe Heller

#9. Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real you, but you don't want to spill your guts out the first time you're out to lunch.

Irene S. Levine

#10. Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

M. E. W. Sherwood

#11. These silent intimacies made their marriage, not the ceremonies or parties or opening nights or occasions or spectacular fucks.

Lauren Groff

#12. His eyes flared dangerously. Did the lass think to share such intimacies with him and then rescind them? Och, nay, Dageus MacKeltar didn't go backward. She would find that out soon enough.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#14. Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Elizabeth Bowen

#15. We have no good blueprint for how to integrate the contemporary intimacies of female friendship and of marriage into one life.

Rebecca Traister

#16. We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A

Anthony Marra

#17. What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you and me that now exist in giant server banks.

Russell Smith

#18. All intimacies are based on differences.

Henry James

#19. carried the full knowledge of how a man and a woman fit together. The plunge of his tongue into her mouth, her yielding softness - all this was part of the dance, a promise of deeper intimacies. She pressed herself closer to him, yearning spiraling out from her center. Nicholas

Anthea Lawson

#20. My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

Jorge Luis Borges

#21. Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.

Satyajit Ray

#22. My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word.

Jorge Luis Borges

#23. In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily ... And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

Miranda July

#24. Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT

Anne Carson

#25. In the face of death, he had nothing to lose by speaking of the intimacies of love. Yet, in the face of life, he could speak only of its banalities.

Gerard Brooker

#26. The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

Lee Gutkind

#27. Steps can then be taken to slow down the natural progression before it gets started. It doesn't work to allow all the preliminary intimacies and then hope to stop the progression just short of intercourse. Very few people have the willpower to do that.

James C. Dobson

#28. Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

William James

#29. Dorrigo glimpsed a complex mud of intimacies normally invisible to the world - the shared sleep, scents, sounds, the habits endearing and frustrating, the pleasures and sadnesses, small and large - the plain mortar that finally renders two as one. Her hair was pulled back

Richard Flanagan

#30. One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.

Gish Jen