Intimacy Quote by Lorrie Moore Download Open image “Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.” — Lorrie Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intimacy Lasts Romance Stage
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. — James Levine Copy Share Image
I think maybe the reason we've lasted so long is we respect each other as individuals and, you know, we love each other. — Scott Moir Copy Share Image
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with people in Chicago, she remembered, was that they were never lonely at the same time. Their sadness occurred in… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented, and he wished them… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your creative writing class calls "self-contempt giving rise to comic form." Write down all of his jokes, but don't tell him you are doing this. Make up anagrams of his old girlfriend's name and name all… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share
“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My grandmother, who, when I visited, stared at me with the staggering, arrogant stare of the dying, the wise vapidity of the already gone;… — Lorrie Moore 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
