Quotes About Intimacy And Commitment

#1. I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

Alanis Morissette

#2. I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#3. The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic." There

J.K. Rowling

#4. Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

Joshua Harris

#5. Market forces which are driven by self indulgent needs designing the ultimate human experiences such as intimacy, love, solidarity and commitment as not enough and no longer needed, resulting in an ongoing emptiness and on the illusion of endless enjoyment.

Bruno De Oliveira

#6. During times of war.
I want to say:
I only love you,
And I cling you,
Like the peel clings to a pomegranate,
Like the tear clings to the eye,
Like the knife clings to the wound.

Nizar Qabbani

#7. But the world has taken lust and disguised it as love. They've taken sex and disguised it as intimacy. They've taken commitment and disguised it as a prison. They've twisted everything until it's all inside out, and then we wonder why everyone is so confused about relationships.

Becky Doughty

#8. When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

Donald Miller

#9. They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict.
The problem was that I craved intimacy to the same burning degree that I detested commitment.
Being a statue was such a perfect job.

Amanda Palmer

#10. The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

Jon Krakauer

#11. Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. No. It was because it was the first time I made love to anyone. You can call me a liar or anything else, but do not doubt me on this. And I swear to you that you were the first, and you will be the last.

~Wraith

Larissa Ione

#13. As Kevin listed these moments, she could see them with perfect clarity: all the missed cues and deflections, all the abortive moments of intimacy. All this time, she had been thinking of him as the one with commitment issues. Somewhere along the line, she had become an asshole.

Charlie Jane Anders

#14. The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

Charles Kay Ogden

#15. The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

Lemon Andersen

#16. The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

Joshua Harris

#17. I wasn't fed; I was presented with lukewarm appetitive stimuli. I wasn't punished, but broken of my unconditioned reflexes. I wasn't loved, but brought up in an atmosphere of calculated intimacy and intense levels of commitment.

Paul Beatty

#18. The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

Steven Spielberg

#19. The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Marianne Williamson

#20. It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised by the errands born from the gap between what we can imagine and what we can in fact create.

Michael Cunningham

#21. Commit to a partner who sparks you physically, but also makes you lust for them mentally

Chris Marvel

#22. This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

Sean Carroll

#23. I am libertarian, and Americans generally are, more than, say, Canadians and Australians.

Joel Salatin

#24. One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.

Sarah Stillman

#25. We who are profoundly joined in soul can only but heal the ruptures of the cosmos.

Peter Hoeg

#26. I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

Amanda Palmer

#27. And it occurred to him at last, with the finality of knowledge, that he had never known another human being with any intimacy or trust or with the human warmth of commitment.

John Edward Williams

#28. We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

Max Hastings

#29. Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

Garry Shandling

#30. Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg

#31. Dogs aren't like family members, they are family members.

Frank DeCaro

#32. The thing you can't underestimate is the true fan's intimacy. So Lady Gaga or anybody's true fan, I don't think they're going anywhere. There are people who are into commitment. If they're connecting with an artist, I think they'll be there over the long course.

Alanis Morissette