Best 491 quotes in «intimacy quotes» category

Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

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

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.

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

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

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.

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.

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

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

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 being seen and known as the person you truly are.

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

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.

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.

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.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

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

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

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.

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.