Intimacy Quotes

528 Intimacy quotes by 403 unique authors

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for… — Wendy Wasserstein
In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those… — Miranda July
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this… — Sylvia Plath
Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina… — Pat Conroy
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first… — Marianne Wiggins
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. — Graham Greene
I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom… — Pablo Neruda
We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake… — Jeanette Winterson
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood… — Tennessee Williams
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue… — Iris Murdoch
It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a… — Diana Gabaldon
Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment,… — Jodi Picoult
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,… — Virginia Woolf
They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to… — Christopher Paolini
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one… — Rollo May
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to… — Bertrand Russell
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling… — Georges Bataille
Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or… — Elizabeth Strout
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity,… — John O'Donohue
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that… — Jim Butcher

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