Intimacy Quotes - Page 27

• What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Joy, Sorrow

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.328, Discovery House

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• Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Men, Today Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.131, 谷月社

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• However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Horizon, Four

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• Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Shame

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• How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.

  Nate Parker

  True Friend, Teenager, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

  Stephen Colbert

  Home, Thinking, Effort

  Slate's Working Podcast with David Plotz, October 17, 2014.

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• Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry is a sharp-eyed, engaging writer, and she deftly captures the terrors, ruptures and intimacies of one seemingly ordinary neighborhood, always finding a precarious beauty in her characters' lives. This is a book that is terrifying, startling, and very hard to put down.

  Rebecca Godfrey

  Powerful, Book, Character

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• 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

  Brother, Father, Self

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.116, Multnomah

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• I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Trying

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• Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

  Jennifer Stone

  Greed, Grace, Culture

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Thinking, Scary, Erotic

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• Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

  Freya Stark

  Animal, Technology, Thinking

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Character, Uniforms

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  Judith Martin

  Family, Different, World

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• Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

  William Shenstone

  Together, Woods, Fool

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231

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• Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

  William Shenstone

  Doe, Sensitive, Plant

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.207

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• instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

  May Sarton

  Instant, Disillusion

  May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Intimacy is a difficult art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Difficult

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.331, Lulu Press, Inc

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• He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perfect, Gentleman, Enjoy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.127

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• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• Deference and intimacy live far apart.

  Moliere

  Deference, Wooing

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• One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

  Mary Harron

  Secret, Cameras, Lenses

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Character, Eye, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 16)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Through words we come to know the other person--and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.

  Harriet Lerner

  Heart, Voice, Knowing

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• It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

  Laura Furman

  Dream, Reading, Able

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