Crowds Quote by Richard Rodriguez

“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 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

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy…

— John O'Donohue

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

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

— Andrew Solomon

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can…

— Miljenko Jergovic

“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

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

— Hortense Calisher

“Silence—true silence is universal. It is the profound stillness at the center of everything, at the center of every relationship—at the center of yourself.…

— Darren Main

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor…

— Anna Quindlen

Sometimes words is not necessary... Silence speaks more.. A hug worth a thousand voices... An actions shout louder... Instinct and feelings do more understand…

— Janet Reolope

I think intimacy is a word that's used more physically than it needs to be. There are times in your life, sometimes it's when…

— Sarah Wayne Callies