Intimacy Quotes

Most popular intimacy quotes

Only discretion allows intimacy, which depends on shared reticence, on what is not said—unsolvable things that would leave the other person ill at ease. - Hector Bianciotti quote.
Only discretion allows intimacy, which depends on shared reticence, on what is not said—unsolvable things that would leave the other person ill at ease.

relationships

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. - Harriet Lerner quote.
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy. - Gail Sheehy quote.
Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.
Gail Sheehy Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

bravery men

Intimacy without commitment is like icing with no cake.  It's going to make you sick, sooner or later.

commitment

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quote.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

friendship tact

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood...because everybody does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie Fisher quote.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood...because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Hollywood

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem. - Elizabeth Bowen quote.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem.
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are. - Malcolm Bradbury quote.
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.
Every intimacy carries, secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. - Elizabeth Gilbert quote.
Every intimacy carries, secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, haven taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. - Carolyn Heilbrun quote.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, haven taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

marriage

Intimacy is not an industry; it's not fast food.
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. - Rollo May quote.
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

risk-taking

Though all human beings 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 quote.
Though all human beings 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.

men and women

Intimacy is a difficult art. - Virginia Woolf quote.
Intimacy is a difficult art.
It is one of the ironies of life that our intimates often provoke us more than our enemies.

irony

The telephone's a pretty meager substitute. Because the minute you hang up, your hand is empty. - Erich Segal quote.
The telephone's a pretty meager substitute. Because the minute you hang up, your hand is empty.