Intimacy Quotes

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

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.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

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

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.