Quotes About Intimacy

#1. 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

Max Barry

#2. The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

David Platt

#3. I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

Anna Journey

#4. The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.

Terrence Real

#5. The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.

Marco Beltrami

#6. Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

Mark Polish

#7. And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I've never known with either man or woman since childhood, and perhaps not even then.

Andrew Pyper

#8. It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Richard Whately

#9. Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

Danielle Cormack

#10. The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

Ron Starbuck

#11. cry wild.
you have probably never
cried wild.
but, you know what doors
feel like.
you have
an intimacy with doors
that is killing you

-break

Nayyirah Waheed

#12. Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

Freya Stark

#13. Are you purring at me?"
"I might be," Rune said. His deep voice was rougher, and lazy with intimacy. "Unless you've done something wrong. Then I'm growling at you again.

Thea Harrison

#14. I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

Pierce Brosnan

#15. If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.

Rajneesh

#16. Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Hanif Kureishi

#17. In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Havelock Ellis

#18. He was never long between women. It was after the thrill had passed and the intimacy became real that he found it difficult. He didn't like talking about his past and he didn't trust promises.

Lisa Ballantyne

#19. I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoover

#20. When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

David D. Burns

#21. She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#22. We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

Timothy Keller

#23. I pretended to be done with love again, although deep down, I craved it. Craved intimacy with anyone, really.

Cindi Madsen

#24. If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.

Courtney Milan

#25. She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air. Her

Henry James

#26. I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

Nick Bantock

#27. When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

Steve Kazee

#28. ...if you can achieve total intimacy with a piece of cable that costs fifty-nine kopeks, what good is it? How can you say you have something special with a person, when you can get the same thing with anyone in Russia in fifteen minutes?

Raphael Carter

#29. Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Hannah Simone

#30. Totally self-reliant, he is a master negotiator. He believes no one, expects the worst of people, distrusts his allies and adversaries alike and makes no pretense at intimacy.

Mark Stevens

#31. That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Eugene H. Peterson

#32. Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Amy Bloom

#33. He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted.

Gwendoline Riley

#34. Our binges on each other were constructing something behind our backs: the stubborn stains of intimacy marked our hands.

Stephanie Danler

#35. One of the deepest feminine desires in intimacy is precisely not to have to always figure it out for her man and guide him.

David Deida

#36. The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.

Frances Mayes

#37. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

John Updike

#38. Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

John Friend

#39. The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a difficult life brings you to the core of yourself, where you learn what justice is and how it has to be fought for.

Paul Monette

#40. I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

Adrian Tomine

#41. Communion in faith, in the intimacy of meaning, cannot remain purely conceptual; it can maintain its vivifying energy only if it associates with communion in speech and action within a common space of social and cultural references. Faith needs culture.

Tariq Ramadan

#42. It felt odd to have interrupted the life of someone she knew nothing about, to kill someone she had only just met, as though killing needed intimacy, deep knowledge of the other, to make it all right.

Pamela Freeman

#43. A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Kerry Cohen

#44. The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

Andrew Solomon

#45. When you find real love - protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

Bryant McGill

#46. [..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.

A. N. Wilson

#47. Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

Peter Breggin

#48. San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

George Halas

#49. The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

David Deida

#50. There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

Alexander McCall Smith

#51. Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair.

Hill Harper

#52. The daily decisions made to stay, to find the new equilibrium. She likes the intimacy, the shared seclusion, efforts at inclusion. How these pockets of time are big enough for only the two of them to share, and how that feels overwhelming, but also incandescent and right.

Jay E. Tria

#53. He did something he rarely did. He touched her. Just a pat of his hand over the back of hers. But it was, Eve realized, a kind of intimacy. An affectionate contact between comrades, and more personal than any act the victim had ever exchanged with a client.

J.D. Robb

#54. The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

Peter Stamm

#55. 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

#56. Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

J. Oswald Sanders

#57. Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Richard Brautigan

#58. At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

Frank Sinatra

#59. I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy.

Charles Stross

#60. Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Arthur Balfour

#61. I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

James Dobson

#62. Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

Merle Shain

#63. George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.

Christopher Isherwood

#64. I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...

Hedi Slimane

#65. There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought
you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.

Jennifer DuBois

#66. As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.

Teresa Of Avila

#67. The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.

Thomas Harris

#68. When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.

Sharon Salzberg

#69. I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

#70. From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.

William James

#71. Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.

Mark Whitwell

#72. His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.

Donna Tartt

#73. It broke over him, a frothing, churning sea a images and sound, so vivid he had to close his eyes against it and hold his breath. Faces long dead; words spoken and heard; professions of love and regret and hate; episodes of intimacy as painful to recall as those characterised by violence.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#74. If you truly desire intimacy with your Father and Jesus, you must be willing to do what is the very heart of intimacy: share who you really are with Him - all your innermost thoughts and feelings.

Linda Boone

#75. Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself.

Toni Morrison

#76. Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: "It was the happiest day of our lives!" While most of us are happy to be adopted, our own hearts tell us that adoption day was the most painful day of our lives, for the person with whom we shared deep intimacy suddenly disappeared from our world.

Sherrie Eldridge

#77. Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed. He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.

Peter Watts

#78. What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings, thoughts.

Anais Nin

#79. For a moment he was lost in the scent and the closeness of her, the grief and self-loathing vanished by this new intimacy. He knew he should tell her to stop, that this was inappropriate, but found himself too intoxicated to care.

Anthony Ryan

#80. There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#81. Too many bleak years have passed over this little spot of Central Europe, and they've drained all the warmth out of this house. They have killed any desire for friendliness and, let me repeat it, you won't find anything in the least like intimacy here.

Albert Camus

#82. I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

Gary LeVox

#83. The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

Parker J. Palmer

#84. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining, and intimacy.

Marianne Williamson

#85. With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.

Warsan Shire

#86. If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

Donald Miller

#87. Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

#88. 'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

Eleanor Catton

#89. 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

#90. Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

Francis Chan

#91. Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

Jennifer Stone

#92. Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

Donald Miller

#93. I want a real relationship, one without intimacy issues; without trust issues, but with all my emotional baggage, I don't know if that's possible.

Ella Dominguez

#94. You're worried about your mother dying, aren't you," Leah said, putting her cheek on my forearm. "I can tell."
For a moment I hesitated, but I could hear the call for intimacy in her voice, the desire for me to let her enter those grottoes where I tended my own fear of my mother's illness.

Pat Conroy

#95. Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Bill Johnson

#96. Real connection and intimacy is like a meal, not a sugar fix.

Kristin Armstrong

#97. The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already on the night was the faint, fresh smell of buddings and the intimacy that comes from the warm delta air trapped between slumbering earth and lowering clouds.

Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

#98. They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy

Alice Munro

#99. Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Donna Goddard

#100. Against the alchemy of two naked bodies in a bed in the darkness, and against all the complex longings and attachments and commitments such intimacy might arouse, he had nothing with which to fight.

Robert Harris