Intimacy Quotes · Page 18

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost…

— Gary LeVox

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all…

— David Baldacci

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's…

— William Shenstone

There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.

— Dean Ornish

“You will never know anyone more intimately than yourself. Love yourself and be good to yourself.”

— Bryant McGill

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

— Jennifer Ehle

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Donna Tartt

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list.…

— Richard Bach

“She had never been so affected by the idea of intimacy, but there was something about his eyes; something warm, and gentle…

— Elizabeth Morgan

Each couple's version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I'll think, 'Yikes,…

— Miranda July

“I offer you my mouth— Let me marry my lips to the tops of your thighs, I kneel between your legs. I…

— Chantelle Ann

The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

“We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One…

— Mark Galli

“Somehow, good talking had gotten tied up with good sex in his mind. He wanted a woman to talk to, one to…

— Betty Smith

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy.…

— Esther Perel

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has…

— Gerald Stern

Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral…

— Mark Doty

Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs…

— Richard Moss

“bay-takalufi.’” He sat up straight and raised his hand like a schoolboy. “I do know that one. It’s informality as an expression…

— Kamila Shamsie

“The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the…

— Peter Mayle

The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship…

— William Barclay

“And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be…

— Julie Anne Long

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love…

— Rajneesh

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

— Peter De Vries

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

— Barbara Cartland

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. Its frustrating that growing up I thought I was wrong. It isnt. Exploring your sexuality is important…

— Amanda Seyfried

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

— Jane Siberry

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair…

— Andrew Solomon

“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?”

— Pat Shand

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

— Thomas Merton

“You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

— Sherry Turkle

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

— Joyce Brothers

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

— Montserrat Caballe

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

— Anais Nin

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

— Judith Viorst

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

— Jeff Bridges

If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

— Greg Behrendt

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

— Mae West