Alive Quote by Arthur Balfour

“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as…

— John Stuart Mill

“There is no intimacy without vulnerability.”

— Brené Brown

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

— Thomas Merton

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

— Ambrose Bierce

“The feeling of emptiness is a pre-existing condition. Jargon forces intimacy.”

— Rae Armantrout

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

— Maria Edgeworth

“The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage”

— Josephine Hart

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

— John Green

We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes:…

— Charles Eisenstein

In the art world, sentimentality and intimacy and the emotive side of lives are considered very uncool. There's nervousness around intimacy.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy…

— John O'Donohue