Best 491 quotes in «intimacy quotes» category

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

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

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

I'm not sure a person ever really reveals the whole of himsels or herself to another person, and I'm not sure we should. Or rather, just because you don't, it doesn't mean you can't have a meaningful relationship with another person. It's important to remember that this idea of confessing your most shameful, embarrassing stories and self to someone else as an expression of love and intimacy is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a new definition of what it means to be close to someone. After all, the self is by its nature secretive.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

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

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

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

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

In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

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

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

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

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.

My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and there is deep pleasure in that intimacy, a mind-to-mind transfer going on. All the music is there, inherently. And mystery as well.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

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

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.

Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

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

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.