Intimacy Quotes

528 Intimacy quotes by 403 unique authors

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded… — Andrew Vachss
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with… — Hanif Kureishi
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she… — Lisa Kleypas
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not… — Steven Pinker
Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous. — Diana Gabaldon
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and… — Fernando Pessoa
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. — Aberjhani
The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food… — Richard Rohr
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. — Brad Meltzer
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like… — Richard Bach
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things — Kazuo Ishiguro
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old… — Elizabeth Kostova
When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without… — Henri Nouwen
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the… — D. H. Lawrence
Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of… — Donald Miller
But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening… — Lisa Kleypas
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life. — David Baldacci
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy — Richard Bach
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams. — Shane Koyczan
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together. — Gabrielle Zevin
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end… — Hanif Kureishi
With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence. — Tommy Tenney
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. — Danielle Steel
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few… — Cesar Millan

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