“Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.” — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
“To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that. — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The air hangs thick with awkward static, like it usually does around the endless parade of therapists, social workers, and grief counselors.… — Jillian Lauren Copy Share Image
We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Yet it was a strange thing that, though we sometimes passed whole hours together without speaking when we were alone, the mere… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image