Intimacy Quotes · Page 18

The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning,…

— Frank Warren

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

— Hedy Lamarr

“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another!…

— Hanif Kureishi

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three…

— Ann Patchett

“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron.”

— Jodi Picoult

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their…

— Edgar Quinet

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

— Gaston Bachelard

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

— John Bevere

“Ham had a way of encouraging intimacy, of making you feel you'd known him for years, and only when you had known…

— Tom Franklin

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy,…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“At the same time, we are hard at work constructing intimacy with algorithms, from our willingness to play along with Siri to…

— Ed Finn

To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place…

— Cliff Sloan

God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place…

— Peter Kreeft

We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need…

— Daniel Pennac

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Our great tendency in this age is to increase our speed, to run faster, even in the Christian life. In the process…

— Charles R. Swindoll

“I mean... it's just one night,' he said softly. 'In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending…

— Stephanie Garber

A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we…

— Alice Sebold

“It can be difficult to leave a long-term relationship, even when our inner-wisdom tells us it's time to let go. At this…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“The art is in evolving to such a receptive consciousness, which is aligned to enjoyment and fruition in both ways – expecting…

— Santosh Jha

Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even…

— Olaf Stapledon

How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love,…

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God.…

— Max Barry

I prefer to play in smaller venues because I like the intimacy, the connection with the audience.

— Ludovico Einaudi

his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

— Richard Brautigan

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough…

— Kenneth Lonergan

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

— Audrey Niffenegger

I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be…

— Rhea Seehorn

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

— J. Oswald Sanders

“Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

I think when you're looking for a lifetime partnership, intimacy is obviously a part of that.

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to…

— Gary Chapman

Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can…

— Gary Zukav

“You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.”

— Timothy Keller

“Don't turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.”

— Agu Jaachynma N E

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

— Harriet Lerner

Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy

— Esther Perel