Intimacy Quotes

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

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

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

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

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

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.

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

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

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

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.