Intimacy Quotes

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. (Robert Sternberg)
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. View quote
William Hazlitt
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy. View quote
Richard Bach
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. View quote
Barbara Cartland
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. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. View quote
Charles Williams
In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play. View quote
Fred Ward
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. View quote
Keith Miller
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
[Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy... (Jennifer Beals)
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy than connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply...the person who wants to read what I have written. View quote
Will Self
... available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. View quote
Marianne Williamson
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest. View quote
Laura Riding
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. View quote
Peter Høeg
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. View quote
Bertrand Russell
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
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. View quote
Jane Austen
May she be granted beauty and yet not; Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe; The heart-revealing intimacy; That chooses right, and never find a friend. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. View quote
Virginia Woolf
This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again. View quote
Gillian Anderson
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. View quote
Henri Nouwen
It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength. View quote
Winston Churchill
He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes. View quote
Joseph Conrad