Important Quote by Anthony Powell

Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy…

— Harriet Lerner

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.

— Spike Jonze

“That's the thing about knowing someone your entire life. You have a common history; it binds, provides a depth that new friendships, new loves,…

— Jessica Maria Tuccelli

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

— Timothy Morton

What's timeless is our need to connect, to feel intimate, to feel that we are understood and heard by another person.

— Lauren Ridloff

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

— Amy Bloom

Every one of us, as human beings, even in a committed relationship, has moments and thoughts and actions that, whether or not they share…

— Jeff Pinkner

“Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have…

— Heather O'Neill

Every human being on the face of the earth is yearning to be understood and have relationships.

— Billy Donovan

“All human beings crave that closeness of another. Its the desire to have one person in the world want to you to be associated…

— Miss Gath

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to…

— Max Beckmann

“I find intimacy within and between all of us that is not sentimental or romantic. From one point of view this intimacy can be…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel