Alleys Quote by Julius Evola

“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

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

— Ambrose Bierce

“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

“Intimacy is a word with eight letters. A word with a sly hiss to it. But then it begins, like love affairs do, with…

— Catherine Hanrahan

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a…

— Henri Nouwen

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

— Amy Bloom

“Sensuality disappears when we stop exploring curiously and fall into the trap of playing out roles. We start to see ourselves through our partner's…

— Adèle Green

“If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected. Love is…

— Esther Perel

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light.…

— Cheryl Strayed

Intimacy is about acceptance - without acceptance intimacy becomes either an illusion or an exercise in futility and frustration.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared…

— Dossie Easton