Intimacy Quotes

528 Intimacy quotes by 403 unique authors

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study,… — Henri Nouwen
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new… — Henri Nouwen
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making… — Guy Pearce
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. — Matthew Perry
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. — George Santayana
So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies. — Will Self
Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing… — Amanda Seyfried
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today. — Layne Staley
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that… — Charles Stanley
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. — Charles Stanley
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. — Robert Sternberg
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert… — Deborah Tannen
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves… — Iyanla Vanzant
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. — Queen Victoria
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write… — David Walliams
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. — Marianne Williamson
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. — Marianne Williamson
I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is… — Tom Waits
I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue… — Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. — Richard Brautigan
What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that… — Jane Austen
We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we… — John Eldredge
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to… — John Updike
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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