Intimacy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
-- Aberjhani -
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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.
-- Aileen Quinn -
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
-- Alain de Botton -
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
-- Alice Fulton -
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
-- Amy Bloom -
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
-- Amy Bloom -
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
-- Anais Nin -
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.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.
-- Armand Assante -
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
-- Arthur Balfour -
True intimacy with God always brings humility.
-- Beth Moore -
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
-- Brad Meltzer -
There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.
-- Brené Brown -
We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
-- Brennan Manning -
Joint consumption doesn’t create intimacy,
-- Charles Eisenstein -
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
-- Charley Pride -
I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg -
I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.
-- Claudia Rankine -
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
-- David Baldacci -
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
-- David Whyte -
Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.
-- Derek Bailey -
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
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.
-- Ellen Barkin -
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
-- Eric Berne -
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
-- Florence Welch -
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
-- Garry Shandling -
Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.
-- Graydon Carter -
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
-- Greg Behrendt -
You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?
-- Hanif Kureishi -
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
-- Harriet Lerner -
Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.
-- Harriet Lerner -
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...
-- Hedi Slimane -
The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.
-- Heidi Baker -
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.
-- Henry Cloud -
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
-- Hortense Calisher -
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
-- J. Oswald Sanders -
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.
-- J. Oswald Sanders -
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....
-- James Dickey -
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
-- Jean Genet -
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
-- Jim Goldberg -
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.
-- John Berger -
The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.
-- Jon Foreman -
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.
-- Joshua Harris -
Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.
-- Joyce Brothers -
Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
-- Judith Viorst -
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
-- Kazuo Ishiguro -
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
-- Keith Miller -
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.
-- Kenneth E. Hagin -
It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
-- Layne Staley -
Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.
-- Lorrie Moore -
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
-- Maggie Scarf -
We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.
-- Marc Collins-Rector -
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.
-- Mark Rothko -
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.
-- Mark Rothko -
If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.
-- Marshall Rose -
You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see.
-- Martin de Maat -
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
-- Matthew Perry -
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
-- Mike Bickle -
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
-- Mike Myers -
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.
-- Monica Baldwin -
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
-- Oswald Chambers -
The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
-- Parker J. Palmer -
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
-- Patricia Clarkson -
I try to stay away from forced intimacy.
-- Paz de la Huerta -
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
-- Pedro Almodovar -
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
-- Peter De Vries -
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.
-- Peter Høeg -
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
-- Rick Warren -
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.
-- Sally Mann -
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
-- Satyajit Ray -
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.
-- Shane Koyczan -
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
-- Sherry Turkle -
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.
-- Stephanie Dowrick -
Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
-- Tatiana Maslany -
With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.
-- Tommy Tenney -
Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.
-- Toni Morrison -
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
-- Tony Horwitz -
There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
-- Warsan Shire -
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
-- William Shenstone -
Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.
-- James M Strock -
Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.
-- Lillian B. Rubin -
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.
-- Max Anders -
The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual acts become so easy, their intimacy declines and their meaning declines.
-- Stephen Marche -
You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see...
-- Martin de Maat
