Quotes and Sayings About Intimacy
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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 BottonSource : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013
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At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton, “About Face”
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 GainsbourgSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 BaldacciSource : David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.420, Pan Macmillan
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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 BaileySource : Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”
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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 -
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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