Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The struggle for true openness and intimacy is a lifelong struggle for all of us, gay and straight alike. And besides, a… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never… — Augustus John Copy Share Image
“What if, in the bigger scheme of things, God put the yearning and desire for our husbands, not so a man could… — Ngina Otiende Copy Share Image
“But when technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections. And then, easy connection becomes redefined as intimacy. Put otherwise,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us,… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“Using the context and stuff of our daily lives to create an atmosphere of comfort prepares the ground for moments of unexpected… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not entirely physical. In fact, it can have no physical interaction at all. For an intimate relationship to take place,… — U Copy Share Image
“There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speak knowing of this space close… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“Hopefully not by sad experience, you will find that some interactions most private, can be the coldest and most closed off, and… — Michael Brent Jones Copy Share Image
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to… — David Cone Copy Share Image
“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… — Jennifer Dubois Copy Share Image
In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we… — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they… — Howard Evans Copy Share Image
That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“When we live life at the pace of a NASCAR race, sex is one of the first things that goes. Once again,… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
