INTIMACY QUOTES II

quotations about intimacy

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: it causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories.

ELIZABETH GILBERT

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage


You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see ... it's allowing someone to know who you are when you have all these defenses to keep them from knowing.

MARTIN DE MAAT

interview, The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998


I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

LAUREN OLIVER

Pandemonium


Intimacy has been the source of the deadliest enmity, no less than of the firmest friendship; like some mighty rivers which rise on the same mountain but pursue a quite contrary course.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


From the covenants of intimacy, we enjoy the treasures of real friendship, for there can be no intimacy where there is no faith.

ELIZA RYVES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

HARRIET LERNER

attributed, Words of Women: Quotations for Success

Tags: Harriet Lerner


Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

DONNA GODDARD

The Love of Devotion


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.

JANE AUSTEN

Sense and Sensibility

Tags: Jane Austen


Seek acquaintance with the wise, intimacy with the good.

XIPHILINUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move.

ELIF BATUMAN

The Possessed


In the modern world intimacy is disappearing. Even lovers are not intimate. Friendship is only a word now; it has disappeared. And the reason? The reason is that there is nothing to share. Who wants to show one's inner poverty?

OSHO

Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

Tags: Osho


Intimacy reveals infirmities; the shoe best knows if the stocking has holes.

HAYTIEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Intimacy is not something that just happens between two people; it is a way of being alive. At every moment, we are choosing either to reveal ourselves or to protect ourselves, to value ourselves or to diminish ourselves, to tell the truth or to hide. To dive into life or to avoid it. Intimacy is making the choice to be connected to, rather than isolated from, our deepest truth at that moment.

GENEEN ROTH

When Food Is Love


The promise of intimacy is also its risk: the more intimacy two people share, the more power they give to each other to cause hurt.

KAREN J. PRAGER

The Dilemmas of Intimacy: Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment


Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

ELIZABETH GILBERT

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage