Welcome to our collection of Intimacy Quotes! Intimacy is a profound and essential aspect of human relationships, encompassing emotional closeness, vulnerability, and deep connections between individuals. Throughout history, writers, philosophers, and thinkers have explored the intricate facets of intimacy, offering insightful perspectives and eloquent expressions of this complex emotion.
On this page, you will find a curated selection of thought-provoking quotes that delve into the depth and beauty of intimacy. These quotes encompass various aspects of intimacy, from romantic relationships to platonic connections and the bonds we share with our loved ones. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, looking to convey your feelings, or simply appreciate the power of words, these quotes are here to ignite your emotions and spark your creativity. Feel free to use them as you see fit – copy them, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to make them uniquely yours. Explore the wisdom and insights offered by these intimacy quotes below, and let them inspire and deepen your understanding of the profound connections we share as human beings.
When you write something by hand, there’s a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don’t get to delete something in the same way, where it’s like it was never there. Jenny Han
I didn’t like England. I couldn’t take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren’t understood. I had to put a big lid on myself. Jane Campion
I don’t have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. Jack Nicholson
Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy – but that’s artificial. Timothee Chalamet
Thinking of Internet chat rooms or AIM as a kind – there’s such an intimacy and honesty to tapping on your phone, despite how quick people are to damn digital means of communication as emotionless or too abstract. Liv Bruce
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. Garry Shandling
I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I’m working with. Armand Assante
In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow. Iyanla Vanzant
Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. Keith Miller
I think it’s always harder in a film to convey intimacy. Patricia Clarkson
Solitude is very different from a ‘time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. Henri Nouwen
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It’s a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing. James Salter
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. Amanda Seyfried
Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy. Sherry Turkle
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. Marianne Williamson
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. Harry A. Blackmun
Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it. George Weinberg
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. Charles Stanley
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
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. Hedy Lamarr
Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there’s an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to. Eric Mabius
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. Charley Pride
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. Layne Staley
As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down. Stephanie Coontz
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. Doc Watson
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. Charles Stanley
That’s one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything – you cannot. No matter how close you’ve been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that – that you don’t tell everybody everything. Siri Hustvedt
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. Dominic Chianese
When I write, I lose time. I’m happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer… Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience… It’s very satisfying. It’s like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. Jill Soloway
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. Henry Laurens
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. George Santayana
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust – not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. Brennan Manning
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. Barbara Cartland
Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives. Mike Yaconelli
Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story. James Altucher
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy – the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author – is unique in my experience. Alice Sebold
My writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and I love studying girl friendships in particular because they seem defined by a combination of codependent intimacy and subtle, constant passive-aggressiveness. Susanna Fogel
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him. Hedy Lamarr
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment. Brene Brown
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. Norman McLaren
Jealousy is unavoidable – it’s part of the price we pay for intimacy. Rachel Simmons
San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don’t mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that’s what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. George Halas
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. Gordon Neufeld
Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? Phil Donahue
I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality. Flip Wilson
The only thing about kissing anyone on screen is that forced intimacy is never pleasant. If you don’t want to be kissing someone, it’s hard to get over that barrier, and so there’s a reluctance to be that close to someone. Matthew Daddario
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. Queen Victoria
But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that. Ellen Barkin
When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there’s an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There’s a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share your past with somebody. It’s really empowering when you’re reunited with people who share that. Jon Tenney
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. Guy Pearce
The knot of intimacy at the center of ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn. Stacey D’Erasmo
I love radio – its immediacy and especially its intimacy… it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can’t see it, but equally importantly it can’t see you. Malcolm Turnbull
Real intimacy depends on truth – lovingly told – especially in the bedroom. Joyce Brothers
People with film careers get a whole onslaught of people they spend 12 hours a day with every three months. It’s like speed dating. You’ve got a fast-track to social intimacy with a whole bunch of people. Christine Elise
I know what my sweet spot has been. It’s personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage. Richard Lewis
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. Henri Nouwen
Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there’s nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that. Graham Nash
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. Deborah Tannen
Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy. Drew Pinsky
I’ve often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me. Luke Ford
The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. Dean Ornish
There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets’ Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. Derek Walcott
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. D. H. Lawrence
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common – a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. Steven Pinker
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. Marc Maron
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
Real connection and intimacy is like a meal, not a sugar fix. Kristin Armstrong
That’s the whole spiritual life. It’s learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. Eugene H. Peterson
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions. Deborah Tannen
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. Joe Williams
I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. James Dobson
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. Peter Zumthor
In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also – philosophically, politically – I just feel like that’s the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I’m not interested in human individuality; I don’t even know what that means. Sally Rooney
I think companies psych themselves out and say, ‘Now that we’re public, we’ve got to get all stuffy. We’ve got to be a certain way,’ and the entrepreneurial spirit dies. What you got to keep alive is the intimacy, the energy, this crazed sense of purpose. Glenn Kelman
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. Havelock Ellis
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. Diana Krall
Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal. It is about you, your family and friends. Food becomes an aspect of those relationships as well as your intimacy with your plot. Monty Don
The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It’s quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy. Jennifer Ehle
The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying. Jane Fonda
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. Eric Berne
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. Ralph Fiennes
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. Timothy Morton
‘River’ is all about tension and release. It’s about intimacy and solace. It’s about staring someone in the face and not backing down. Bishop Briggs
Prenups are so unromantic – a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness – you’re fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it. Suze Orman
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Robert Sternberg
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. Edgar Quinet
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. Matthew Perry
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it. Martin Jacques
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. Robert Morgan
Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!’ Miranda July
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Rollo May
The sound of a mother’s voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener. Montserrat Caballe
Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don’t know me, so who cares what they think? Garry Shandling
I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed. Aparna Sen
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. Fred Ward
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. Junot Diaz
Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. Joyce Brothers
I started so slowly and had so few followers and then it kind of sort of snowballed. I still feel an intimacy on Twitter, which I think a lot of us do. It feels intimate, doesn’t it? I love it. I never thought I would. Jennifer Ehle