Intimacy Quotes - Page 4

• Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Enemy, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.18, Image

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• I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

  Brit Marling

  Thinking, Littles, Scared

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• For a long time I thought-'I've got to buck up and be strong. I've got to put on a brave face-and get through this near burn-out or that discouraging time in my life,'" "God has really seriously changed my thinking on this. When you take off the mask, you relate at a base level to everyone else who has been through pain-and everyone has. Honesty promotes intimacy and promotes us together relying on God. True honesty is beautiful.

  Rebecca St. James

  Beautiful, Strong, Pain

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• Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Smart, Grateful, Heart

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• I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

  Jane Fonda

  Challenges, Intimate, How To Be Happy

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Eye, Essence, Two

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

  Nathaniel Branden

  Flower, Self, Love Relationship

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  George Eliot

  Heartbreak, Judging, Feelings

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Women, Literature, Revelations

  "The Death of the Heart". Book by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938.

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  Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

  John Barrymore

  Relationship, Sexy, Witty

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• He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together.

  Julie James

  Simple, Hands, Together

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.192, Penguin

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• The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.

  Mark Rothko

  Glasses, Views, Looks

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• Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

  Keith Miller

  Reality

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• Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

  Martha Beck

  People, Essentials, Different

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• I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.

  Simon Amstell

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Simon Amstell Overshares". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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• It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what that means in relationships. As a person in the world, it's on your mind. It's a part of your life, after a certain age until you're dead. So, to be able to examine it in a different way is really fulfilling.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Mean, Intellectual

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 2, 2013.

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• A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Heart, Two, People

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• Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Feels Just, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thrive, Persons

  "Something's Gotta Give". www.mirror.co.uk. February 6, 2004.

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• There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Feelings, Painting, Intimate

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• The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

  Augustus John

  Buttons, Arriving, Failing

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• Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.

  Sally Mann

  Way, Portraits, Photographer

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• Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Summer

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 20, 2013

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• Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy.

  Graydon Carter

  Television, Benefits, Regularity

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• We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Nice, Kind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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