Intimacy Quotes

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.

Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.

I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy)

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

Secrets are the currency of intimacy

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

All intimacies are based on differences.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

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

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.

Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.

It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.