Intimacy Quotes

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself

Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see...

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

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 other's stories. (p.237)

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.

Intimacy means "into me see"!

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.