Best 491 quotes in «intimacy quotes» category

You were given your sensuality for the joy you may give in return.

You will never know anyone more intimately than yourself. Love yourself and be good to yourself.

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

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.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

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

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.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

...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.

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

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’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.

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

Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

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

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