Intimacy Quotes

Intimacy wasn't sex, she realized. It was knowing someone.

~ Sarah Morgan

the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy 

~ Nayyirah Waheed

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

~ Terrence Real

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

~ Gail Carson Levine

The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. 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; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty.

~ Bertrand Russell

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

~ Terrence Real

a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, History: Influence on Humanity].

~ Catie Marron

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal’s or Faulkner’s.

~ Milan Kundera

I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the intimacy that slows, defeats. and confounds it. Love, that's what it is. You've always made the mistake that men often make, and carried forward the great fault that mars civilisation, which is that you believe that your philosophy is deeper than love.

~ Mark Helprin

...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

~ Michel Houellebecq

She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; what was his; what was promised.

~ Shewanda Pugh

Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

~ Nadia Hashimi

Connectivity becomes a craving.

~ Sherry Turkle

We come here (literally) reaching for intimacy and love. But it seems soon after our arrival, we're made to believe that they're luxuries not necessities.

~ Rashod Ollison

Intimacy isn’t something men talk about.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

~ Sherry Turkle

Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.

~ Joshua Stannard

No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back. If you remain clever and go on safeguarding and protecting yourself, only personalities meet, and the essential centers remain alone. Then only your mask is related, not you. Whenever such a thing happens, there are four persons in the relationship, not two. Two false persons go on meeting, and the two real persons remain worlds apart.

~ Osho

Of all the deep longings, this ache for missing intimacy, cuts through sharply, like a scream in a silent room, like the last gasping breath under a stifling mask, like the huge lump in the throat that one is unable to swallow. This deep ache to be held, to know touch both the casual and intense variety, to catch an eye in answering laughter, to merge into oneness, to sing through existence in resonance with another, to simply be in deep love in openness. to live and die in intimacy and vulnerability in a loved one's arms. And, you ache alone...

~ Srividya Srinivasan

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.

~ Gail Caldwell

He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer----she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.

~ Jane Green

Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

~ Diana Gabaldon

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

~ David Halberstam

Intimacy with GOD is most exhilarating, most amazing, most exciting and most rewarding of all.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.

~ Dossie Easton

The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deepest sense but we feel stuck with superficiality.

~ Dannah Gresh

Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.

~ Marty Rubin

She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn't want to love; not now, so she'll close the door and toss the key.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

How many people are watching a movie right now, or reading a book or listening to a song or looking into their life or dreaming with this profound, conscious or not, yearning more than anything for some kind of relationship somewhere with someone or something that would cause them to stagger in intimate rawness in friendship and love?

~ Darrell Calkins

May every man find the softest and most fragile expression of his personality with the right woman who would treasure and honour the beauty of his femininity and not misuse it and may all women find empowering and supportive men who would exult in her self expression and success without fear of being overshadowed by the power of her masculinity and in that beautiful new world, shall we enter as partners, equal and empowering, supporting and caring, vulnerable and strong.

~ Srividya Srinivasan

Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy

~ Deborrah K. Ogans

If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's

~ A.m.m Alusi

They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.

~ D.h. Lawrence

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

~ Larry Watson

The growth of intimacy will teach us how to love—both ourselves and the other person. If we will allow ourselves to practice the skills of intimacy, we will learn to love. Boundaries protect love and intimacy. Certain behaviors support the integrity of intimacy. Other behaviors, harm, disrupt, or reverse, intimacy. By using skills that promote intimacy, boundaries are created that protect the relationship.

~ Anne Katherine

How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds. A curious glance. What are you doing?Traveling around the world.

~ Nalini Singh

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

~ Max Barry

If you want the naked beauty of my vulnerability, you have to have the strength to share the burden of, the private pain, that makes me feel so tender and fragile. For i am as strong, as i am, weak. If you want me to come home to you, be the safe harbor, in which, i can seek refuge.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our living room.''And some are let into the bedroom,' said Gamache.

~ Louise Penny