Intimacy Quotes

• My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though there was still a great deal of camaraderie among the kids. Things were set up almost like a business, and it had to be managed that way because we were really poor, and there were a lot of mouths to feed.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Kids
  • Honest
  • Poor

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Intimacy
  • Connected
  • Gigs

• Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

  

  George Weinberg
  • Intimacy
  • Demand
  • Promote

• Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy

  

  Esther Perel
  • Language
  • Intimacy
  • Connections

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

  

  Courtney Milan
  • You
  • Know
  • Address

• The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Married

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

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Intimacy

• I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Desire
  • Understanding
  • Choices

• The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Audience
  • Expression
  • Intimacy

• 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

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

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Privilege

• 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

• 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

• 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 that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Intimacy

• 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

• Joint consumption doesn't create intimacy.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Intimacy
  • Consumption

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