Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is…

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

— Pat Shand

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just…

— Hanif Kureishi

“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.”

— Isabel Allende

“Lack of intimacy among friends is a mistake that cannot be censured without becoming irreparable.”

— NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM

True intimacy is the experience of real acceptance and authentic vulnerability without feeling the need to apologize or fear rejection. The freedom to just…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each…

— Jacques Leclercq

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

— Deborah Tannen

I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and…

— Esther Perel

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

— Anonymous

“You thought I was answering "As you wish" but that's only because you were hearing wrong. "I love you" was what it was, but…

— William Goldman

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

— Phil Donahue

“Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged”

— Kerry E. Wagner

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“One single syllable of intimacy and the world is put to rights.”

— John Boyne

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

— Dean Ornish