Intimacy Quotes · Page 3

Intimacy is a difficult art.

— Virginia Woolf

“Eschew evil and it's machinations.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Intimacy and community buffer stress.

— Dean Ornish

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

— Kristin Armstrong

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

— Dallas Willard

“The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.”

— Jean Edward Smith

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

— Kerry E. Wagner

What people respond to is intimacy and regularity.

— Pete Holmes

“Those minutiae calcify into the bones of our intimacy.”

— Jac Jemc

“You have been called to a life of blessing, don't descend to that of curses.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

— Garry Shandling

“They stayed there, tangled in each other, heartbeats racing. Nothing mattered but this.”

— C.G. Drews

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

— Jeff Buckley

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

“if I am the longest relationship of my life isn't it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person I lie…

— Rupi Kaur

“Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

— Cameron Diaz

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

— Richard LaGravenese

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”

— Sarah Pekkanen

If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need…

— Rajneesh

“Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as…

— Kyo Maclear

Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal.…

— Monty Don

Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate…

— Lupita Nyong'o

This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man…

— Jay Roach

“Well, I've kept you waiting long enough," he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which,…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Jordan Blake Michiels

“If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“One of the best ways to let Him inside you is to honestly share your feelings with Him. You need to be…

— Linda Boone

“Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowded room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you are punching someone,…

— D.K. Holm

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical…

— Rollo May

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke…

— Anonymous

“when other characters mistake Sam and Dean for a couple, this is not just a crude attempt at homophobic humor. It also…

— Galen A. Foresman

“In part this is an intimacy disorder, for as soon as she starts to recommit to the relationship, he starts distancing himself.…

— Patrick J. Carnes

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other…

— Hannah Arendt

Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at…

— David Deida

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

— Anna Deavere Smith

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

— David Whyte

“but somehow, his seeing her afraid was an intimacy she could not bear.”

— Brit Bennett

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

— James Mercer

Physical intimacy is emotionally binding. But there are lots of different sins.

— Hannah Brown