Intimacy Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intimacy Mind Print Psychology Religion Romance Spiritual
“The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage” — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
“The intimacy was disconcerting, right and wrong at the same time, comforting and terrifying, exhilarating and guilt-inducing.” — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply that you feel like you can see into their souls. — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not purely physical. It's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul. — Anonymous 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
“...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another... The most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share
“I don't pretend to understand the mystery of love, but this time it was more than sex, more than using a woman's body. It… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf 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