Friendship Quote by Thomas Paine

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage”

— Josephine Hart

“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

“Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede;…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

The intimacy of human relationships that provides a first introduction to humanity

— Anonymous

Friendship is the most constant, the most enduring, the most basic part of love.

— Ed Cunningham

“There is a freedom that can be discovered in relationship, whether it be with spiritual community or with another individual, where something much bigger…

— Adyashanti

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these…

— Voltaire

“Beware of relationships that substitute intensity for emotional intimacy.”

— Adelyn Birch

“Lack of intimacy among friends is a mistake that cannot be censured without becoming irreparable.”

— NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

— Amy Bloom