Intimacy Quotes

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  To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

  Robert Sternberg

  Love, Work, Passion

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• 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

  Communication, Independence, Cogs

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

  Bill Hybels

  Relationship, Who I Am, Proud

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

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

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Wisdom, Understanding

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• Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

  Alain de Botton

  Relationship, Capacity, Findings

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

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• The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

  Marianne Williamson

  Honesty, Commitment, Keys

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• The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Life, Loneliness

  "An Emotional Survival Guide to Burning Man" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

  John Friend

  Persons, Greater, More Knowledge

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• Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Heart, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Reading, I Hate You, Wedding Speech

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Relationship, Swings, Oneness

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

  Keith Miller

  Reality

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