Intimacy Quotes - page 6

I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well. (Shingai Shoniwa)
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. View quote
Cate Blanchett
When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy. View quote
Bono
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. View quote
James Dobson
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. View quote
Warren Farrell
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. View quote
Errol Morris
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people. View quote
Ann Patchett
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work is the implementation of this original fault, from which comes a risky plenitude and new light. View quote
Maurice Blanchot
The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are healthier ways that you can put this into your life. And the three big ones are intimacy ... physical activity ... and the third thing is music. View quote
Neal Barnard
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it. (J. Oswald Sanders)
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium. View quote
Stewart O'Nan
Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it. View quote
Suze Orman
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. View quote
Harriet Lerner
True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree. View quote
Henry Cloud
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. View quote
Junot Diaz
You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood. View quote
Junot Diaz
I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships. View quote
Bong Joon-ho
Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in. (Diane Lane)
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. View quote
David Walliams
He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together. View quote
Julie James
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious. View quote
Amy Bloom
But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that. View quote
Elizabeth Berg