Intimate Quotes

726 Intimate quotes by 594 unique authors

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece. — Doris Salcedo
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. — William McFee
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to… — Lord Chesterfield
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and… — Gilbert Highet
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or… — Fay Weldon
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts. — Miguel de Unamuno
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying… — Douglas Coupland
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head. — Laura Marling
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these… — Ryan McGinley
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional. — Caroline Myss
I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially… — Tom Peters
I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of… — Elizabeth Reaser
When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Human beings are confused, deluded and generally un-awakened. So as a person who seeks to increase their energy, you have to be very careful about… — Frederick Lenz
There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer. — Jimmy Smits
Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with… — Carol Vorderman
Dare to dream of your great success. Become intimate with those things which deeply motivate you and regularly work toward the realization of that mission. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front… — Linda Lavin
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
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long… — Henri Nouwen
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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