Intimacy Quotes

528 Intimacy quotes by 403 unique authors

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and… — Parker J. Palmer
If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on… — Andrew Greeley
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought… — Hans Zinsser
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it… — Ellen Barkin
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. — Anna Deavere Smith
When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on. — Anton du Beke
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. — Armand Assante
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. — Patricia Clarkson
I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which… — Jennifer Ehle
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. — Clifford Stoll
Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy. — Sonia Johnson
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is… — Jane Campion
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger… — Bong Joon-ho
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill… — Steve Kazee
This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another –… — Sebastian Faulks
Intimacy means "into me see"! — Robert Mandel
I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of touch, / eternity… — John O'Donohue
Life is the most precious and wondrous thing that any of us have. Along the way, one of the real miracles occurs when we realize… — Richard Moss
No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet… — Dennis Rainey
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. — Ambrose Bierce
There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings. — Vincent Van Gogh
There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts… — John Berger
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it… — Ben Shahn
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden

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