Intimacy Quotes - Page 25

• Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

  Donald Miller

  Mean, Good Friend, Men

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.122, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Firsts, Steps, Common

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers”, p.197, D. H. Lawrence

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• The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

  Ira Sachs

  Film

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way.

  Demetri Martin

  Giving, Different, Chance

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've made mistakes. I don't think you've been a good partner to me. How do we go forward together?" I think there's a different answer for every couple. But I think intimacy is asking that question.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Couple, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: wbur.org

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• When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Inspiration, Forgiving

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• We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Couple, Divorce

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• The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Love, Differences, Form

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• Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point of view in such a unique way. The way that film is shot, the way the eyelines are so close, if not directly into camera, betrays an intimacy with the characters and the audience.

  Bryan Fuller

  Character, Unique, Views

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• If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Two, People

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• Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Romance, Firsts, First Time

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.599, Dell

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• One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind of being, and a desire, nevertheless, to cultivate an intimacy with animals, trees, mountains and so on.

  David E. Cooper

  Animal, Differences, Tree

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual acts become so easy, their intimacy declines and their meaning declines.

  Stephen Marche

  Sex, Kissing, Easy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer as a filmmaker: the intimacy I've had with experience in a particular world, so the film comes from things I've seen and things I've felt. It gets transformed by the process. I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

  Ira Sachs

  Distance, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In The Shining, you love Shelley Duvall. You love Jack Nicholson. You're let into the intimacy of that violence and it's emotional and it's physical. We're let in very close. So I think a good horror film has to pull you in very deeply inside. Halloween is a good horror film because we love Jamie Lee Curtis, we're brought very deeply in right when she's babysitting the kids. She's going from house to house, all those houses have windows that you can look in. We're a very vulnerable and exposed audience.

  Kimberly Peirce

  Halloween, Kids, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Hate, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.225, Bibliolis Books

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• The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.

  Joshua Harris

  Commitment, Godly, Joy

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.28, Multnomah

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• One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

  Maya Banks

  Song, Two, Space

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• In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

  Lynn Shelton

  Philosophy, Real, Psychological

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

  Stephen Dunn

  Order, Way, Patterns

  Stephen Dunn (2013). “Here and Now: Poems”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

  Jane Green

  Pain, Joy, Someone You Love

  Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Sadness, Emotional

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• What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated, while at the same time seeking to reciprocate. To feel loved is to have the sense that the other person genuinely cares about your well-being. Respect has to do with feeling that your potential spouse has positive regard for your personhood, intellect, abilities and personality. Appreciation is that inner sense that your partner values your contribution to the relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Appreciation, Emotional, Personality

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• The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

  Tara Brach

  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.215, Bantam

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• In Dardenne brothers' films is a really small kind of humanity. It's not like the titanic "humanity" of humanism, it's much more gritty and realistic. But again, humanity is what unites all the people I'm talking about, and in such different ways. The humanity is in that moment you glimpse someone and have a completely intimate moment with them, and that intimacy is connected to an extreme pathetic aspect.

  How to Dress Well

  People, Humanity, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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