65 Great Intimacy Quotes And Sayings
Intimacy is close familiarity or friendship.
1. Intimacy begins with conversation
2. Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.
Gabrielle Zevin
3. Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability… Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.
Anonymous
4. The slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. You deserve a relationship that is based on connection, partnership and intimacy. Choose to be in a relationship with someone who is honest, 100% responsible for their life and committed to being the best person they can be, along with loving and adoring your mind, body and soul. never settle for less.
Anonymous
7. I dont have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, Which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson
8. I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It’s so much more fun to play because there’s so much more high energy in a place like that. Gary Allan
9. I want emotional intimacy
Anonymous
10. It's not always about sex, sometimes the best type of intimacy is where you just lay back, laugh together at the stupidest things, hold each other, and enjoy each others company
Anonymous
11. People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
Stendhal
12. There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you’re acting because there’s no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I’ve never met before.
Jessica Chastain
13. You’re creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it’s their experience, not yours. I’ll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about ‘my’ broken heart.
Diana Krall
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14. Intimacy is a difficult art.
Virginia Woolf
15. Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Lionel Stander
16. I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
Amanda Palmer
17. Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.
Joshua Harris
18. It has an intimacy to it that some of the larger extravaganza museums don't have.
Lee Skolnick
19. There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.
Jerry Stahl
20. Maybe a romantic getaway will solve your crippling fear of intimacy
Anonymous
21. Intimacy means that we’re safe enough to reveal the truth about ourselves in all its creative chaos. If a space is created in which two people are totally free to reveal their walls, then those walls, in time, will come down
Marianne Williamson
22. Everybody's hurting for intimacy.
Corrs
23. As long as you’re afraid of intimacy and spiritual partnership, you won’t likely experience it. To have it, you have to share it with each other. Just as there’s no I in team, there’s no it in independence.
Craig Groeschel
24. When partners reveal their deepest most vulnerable feelings they create emotion intimacy
Anonymous
25. When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
26. Intimacy is a quick access to your internal pharmacy
Anonymous
27. Intimacy is now what you crave, and that requires stability reliability and trust.
Anonymous
28. When love has been wounded; trust, reassurance, honesty, and intimacy, in abundance, are the only known cures
Anonymous
29. Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy among women intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland
30. Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
Rollo May
31. Grace filled intimacy is about giving with enthusiasm and receiving with joy.
Anonymous
32. Physical intimacy isnt and can never be an effective subsitute for emotional intimacy
Anonymous
33. Honesty is the highest form of intimacy.
Anonymous
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34. Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
Stefan Molyneux
35. If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
36. Intimacy is a four syllable word for here’s my heart and soul. Please grind them into hamburger and enjoy! It’s both desired and feared. Difficult to live with and … you have to define for yourself.
Meredith Grey
37. As long as you’re afraid of intimacy and spiritual partnership, you won’t likely experience it. To have it, you have to share it with each other. Just as there’s no I in team, there’s no it in independence.
Craig Groeschel
38. He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
Jane Austen
39. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
40. Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
41. To be intimate is to be in true. Every corner of your body is an earthquake. That' how you make love to a woman.
Anonymous
42. Fear Is The Great Enemy Of Intimacy Fear Makes Us Run Away From Each Other Or Cling To Each Other But Does Not Create True Intimacy.
Henri Nouwen
43. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with god
Anonymous
44. Your strength lies in your intimacy with god.
Anonymous
45. Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom
46. As you develop intimacy with god the supernatural becomes natural.
Sid Rothis
47. To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire
48. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
49. Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone and finding that that's ok with them.
Alain de botton
50. A man in a relationship trades intimacy to get sex. A woman in a relationship trades sex to get intimacy.
Old Proverb
51. The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. it is intimacy.
Richard Bach
52. Intimacy is not who you let touch you. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.
Anonymous
53. All intimacy is rare — that’s what makes it precious. And it involves the revelation of one’s self and the loving gaze upon another’s true self (no makeup, no fancy car, no defensive charm, no seduction) — that’s what makes it so damn hard. Intimacy requires honesty and kindness in almost equal measure (a little more kindness, I think), trust and trustworthiness, forgiveness and the capacity to be forgiven . . . It’s more than worth it — just don’t let them tell you it’s bilss.
Amy Bloom
54. Eye contact is way more intimate than words can ever be.
Anonymous
55. True intimacy is more than fooling around with somebody you’re attracted to. I want to share myself with somebody who will press her hands through the surface of my skin, curl herself up inside my soul and say, Here, this is who I am.
Beau Taplin
56. Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.
Sabina Sesselmann
57. Enlightenment is just intimacy with all things.
Eihei Dogen
58. It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane Austen
59. Intimacy is not purely physical; it's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul
Anonymous
60. The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.
Jonathan Carrroll
61. The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.
Cheryl Strayed
62. You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. True intimacy with god always brings humility.
Beth Moore
64. But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
65. Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Charlie Chaplin