Intimacy Quote by Jeanette Winterson Download Open image ““What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”” — Jeanette Winterson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intimacy Life Love Romance
“The connection between us is tight and frightening, and the intimacy is nearly too much for my heart to swallow.” — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“And what do we have? A profound if sexless intimacy of a kind I’ve never known with either man or woman since childhood, and… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only” — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“Everyone around them seem oblivious to their own brand of intimacy.” — Michael Banebrook Copy Share Image
“Intimacy is about growing more than you could by yourself, through the art of mutual gifting.” — David Deida Copy Share Image
“With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.” — Adelyn Birch Copy Share Image
“Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that breaks out with clenched teeth and weeps; the sinking feeling… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?” — Pat Shand Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“You thought I was answering "As you wish" but that's only because you were hearing wrong. "I love you" was what it was, but… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each… — Jacques Leclercq Copy Share Image
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
