Doing nothing Quote by Jean Genet Download Open image “They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.” — Jean Genet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doing nothing Intimacy Romance Time
“Unless they have the opportunity to experience therapy or another transformational love relationship, they may not develop much capacity for intimacy.” — Laura Markham Copy Share Image
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good… — Michelle Herman Copy Share Image
INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory,… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are going to kill me, and that will protect society from me. But out there are many, many more people who are addicted… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Love women! I hate feminism. "Hate" may be an accurate word, but too strong to use. I strongly oppose feminism because it's nothing but… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I am not advocating doing nothing. I am advocating for you to energetically, actively and vigilantly monitor how you are BEING. — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
