Intimacy Quotes - Page 23

• I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

  John Updike

  Reading, Life Is Too Short, Writing

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hero, Worship, Christ

  7 Copy quote

• Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.

  Rollo May

  Communication, Community, Feelings

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.

  Joseph Addison

  Care, Common, Trouble

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.314

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

  William James

  Life, Friendship, Littles

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man

  Rod Stryker

  Giving Up, Lying, Men

  4 Copy quote

• When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

  14 Copy quote

• Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Over You, Different, Too Much

  4 Copy quote

• This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I'm used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

  David Cone

  Baseball, Somewhere Else, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.

  Tony Robbins

  Home, Careers, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, Mind, Print

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Determination, Space, Urgent

  4 Copy quote

• there was not much distinction between losing a friend and a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumph, and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  Losing Friends, Triumph, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

  Raymond Carver

  Memories, Believe, Laughing

  Raymond Carver (1989). “Elephant and other stories”

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.

  Carl Orff

  Latin, Drinking, Ignorance

  12 Copy quote

• [Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Asahi Radio Interview, publications.asahi.com. 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.

  Mark Doty

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Heroism

  Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.6, Beacon Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Kids, Parent, Saint

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

  J. D. Greear

  Christian, Essence, Worship

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.

  Bruce Feiler

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

  15 Copy quote

• We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

  Marc Collins-Rector

  Reality, Concept Of Love, Concepts

  7 Copy quote

• Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy, it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Understanding, Feelings

  21 Copy quote

• A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

  William Henry Hudson

  Animal, Equality, Men

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Lonely, Emo, Pain

  "Lovingkindness". Book by Sharon Salzberg, July 14, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

  Frank Warren

  Struggle, Issues, Secret

  "Frank Warren: Secret keeper". TED Speaker profile, www.ted.com. April 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source