Audience Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

— Jonathan Carroll

... if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis.…

— Elizabeth Ferrars

“• Find a complete stranger. • Reveal to each other intimate details about your lives for half an hour. • Then, stare deeply into…

— Arthur Arun

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede;…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

— Peter De Vries

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

— Page Smith

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

— Maggie Scarf

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence…

— Thomas Keating

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

— Timothy Morton

“Intimacy lies in the body and the soul, in scent, in touch and taste and sound. A man whose name you don’t know can…

— Indra Das

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

— Sophie Irene Loeb

“Hopefully not by sad experience, you will find that some interactions most private, can be the coldest and most closed off, and some interactions…

— Michael Brent Jones