Intimacy Quotes - Page 17

• I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

  Aberjhani

  Relationship, Love You, Millions

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

  Julia Cameron

  Roots, Anorexia, Artistic

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.257, Souvenir Press

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• The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Simple, Emotional

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• This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those who are deprived of the experience, the need freezes and, distorted, it can rent a life. All addiction has as its foundation skewed yearning for the same transcendence. For me, the spell of the material was broken by my brother’s death; after his suicide, all I wanted was the renewal of my connection to the intangible.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Suicide, Brother

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• My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Generations, Relentless, Social

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• In wrestling there are so many people inside and outside the ring, and it's so live, and it's this whole adrenaline thing. Whereas you move it into this more intimate thing, everything gets all quiet, someone says action, and you have to say the lines and make the words your own. It couldn't be any more different and it's weird sometimes trying to explain that to people. When I tell people that acting is much more terrifying to me than going out in front of ten thousand people, they don't quite believe it because for some reason that intimacy is just terrifying to me.

  Dave Bautista

  Moving, Believe, Wrestling

  "From Wrestling To Acting: An Interview With Dave Bautista". Interview with Phil Brown, www.cgmagonline.com. August 01, 2014.

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• What appealed to me was the intimacy of the medium, the fact that I was doing it from my home, and the fact that I wanted to talk. I was not there to plug things. I don't do a hell of a lot of research. I go on a sort of kindred-spirit bonding that preexists the interview, and just see what unfolds.

  Marc Maron

  Home, Research, Goes On

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Eye, Illumination

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Silence, Deaf

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• There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

  Cliff Sloan

  Moving, Unique, Law

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• Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Jobs, Children

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• The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

  Publilius Syrus

  Eye

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• 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

  Distance, Tolerance, World

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

  Christopher Doyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

  Russell Brand

  Hate, Nice, People

  "Russell Brand Talks BRANDX, Upcoming Changes to the Show, Diablo Cody’s Directorial Debut, and DESPICABLE ME 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

  Henry Cloud

  True Intimacy, Disagree

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• I love intimacy, always, of performing.

  Julio Iglesias

  Performing

  "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language... of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.

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• I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Space, Trying

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

  Dan Millman

  Fear, Animal, Garden

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• Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of "dressing" to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam.

  Herman Melville

  Reading, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4516, Delphi Classics

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• The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

  Mason Cooley

  Guilty, Separateness

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• Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

  Nora Ephron

  Feminism, Consciousness, Illusion

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.97, Vintage

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• No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet no other relationship can bring with it as many adjustments, difficulties and even hurts. There's no way you can avoid these difficulties; each couple's journey is unique. But there is much you can do to prepare for that journey. An engagement is not just a time of preparation for a wedding, but also preparation for a marriage.

  Dennis Rainey

  Hurt, Couple, Commitment

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