Intimacy Quotes

• This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Joy
  • Communion
  • Compelling

• Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

  

  Danielle Cormack
  • Love
  • Accepting
  • Vulnerable

• You’re not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn’t perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other. That’s the whole deal. That’s what intimacy is all about.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Perfect
  • Question
  • Each Other

• 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.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Age
  • Roles
  • Soulmate

• I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Powerful
  • Theater
  • Engagement

• If ever I address you with an intimacy, you'll know it.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • You
  • Know
  • Address

• Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Record
  • Intimacy

• What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

  

  Audrey Niffenegger
  • Knowing
  • Intimacy
  • Basic

• I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Intimacy
  • Miss
  • Ministry

• Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Friendship
  • Promise
  • Break

• I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Intimacy

• Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Intimacy

• I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Pleasure
  • Teach
  • Performance

• I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

  

  Nick Bantock
  • Mistake
  • Scared
  • Expecting

• The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Forgiveness

• The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Privilege

• The cool thing about the smaller gigs - it's the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Intimacy
  • Connected
  • Gigs

• Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Intimacy
  • Consumption

• We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Hurt
  • Intimacy
  • Hungry

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