Best 491 quotes in «intimacy quotes» category

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

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

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

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.

There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

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

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

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.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

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

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].

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

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

A deep connection is a level where you are operating at your highest sensual frequency.

A formal period in life where there isn’t the worry of another person’s dramas and insecurities can be of great advantage, especially when used for growing into the full and wholesome beings we intended to be when choosing to come to this material manifestation. “Even after ending a long relationship or a marriage, it seems normal to have some alone-time to reflect, meditate, explore areas of interest, find meaning in one’s suffering and try to placate the void felt in the heart before attempting to enter into new relationships, otherwise the same old mistakes will surely re-emerge. “Once we’re at the stage of life where we can stand our own silence, where we’ve made peace with our past, where we’ve accepted and grown from its lessons, and we would like to share our independence without becoming dependent on someone else for love and affection, then we can choose to commit to a two bodied intimate relationship.

A Lenina le resultaba muy inquietante. En primer lugar, su manía de hacerlo todo en privado. Lo que en la práctica significaba no hacer nada en absoluto. Porque ¿qué podía hacerse en privado?

A intimidade é um dos caminhos para o silêncio.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling right then…if we laid it all out for one another…we might not like the way the words strung together. Or the way fear and hope and bitterness and love mashed up into one big mess in the pits of our stomachs.

A lot of the heartache and confusion we feel in dating stems from treating dating mainly as practice for marriage (clarity through intimacy), instead of as discernment toward marriage (clarity and then intimacy).

All this? It's a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever. (Stormy)

All these openings for closeness--all these humans with their disappointments and their desperate hearts, but it's so much easier, so convenient, to blame emotional distance on a lack of time.

A man can love her woman, or he can be her husband.

A man can love her wife, or he can be her husband.

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.

Amica mia. Amore mio. Mio respiro.

An appropriately warm and affectionate relationship with the father is the greatest basis for future warm and lasting relationships with men emotionally and sexually. I say this not by virtue of any statistic but by virtue of the absence of such relationships is most of the sexually unhappy women I've treated. I can't think of one who had a wondrous relationship with her father- except for those who did have such a relationship but lost it because of the early death of the father.

..and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.

And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be as tense as a crossbow drawn back. The reader should want it as badly as the hero and heroine, and feel as satisfied and transported and transformed as the hero and heroine in the wake of it. There are different ways to use kisses in a romance, but that first kiss is so meaningful, a pinnacle, and can be more intimate than sex.

And they say that there is no intimacy unless there is mutual acceptance and mutual trust, no matter whatever else there is, and I would side with them.

And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.

And though Lotto was thoroughly straight, the daily greedy need of his hands told her this, her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body and the body itself. And there was a part of her husband that had always been so hungry for beauty.

And you ask me why I love him instead of you... He showed me how to feel safe without walls.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.