Quotes about Intimacy
We're told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don't experience Jesus personally like that. They just don't. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don't experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.
— John Eldredge
I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.
— Julie Andrews
we can live without sex, but we cant live without love.
— Shane Claiborne
Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love. And
— Shane Claiborne
can sing my wife a song, but she really knows I love her when I do the dishes.
— Shane Claiborne
the greatest barrier to intimacy is fear -- fear of being known, fear of being rejected, fear of facing the truth about ourselves... ...We are afraid to be known because at some deep level we fear that the truth about us, when out in the open and reflected back to us through someone else's eyes, will be shocking to ourselves.
— Sheila Walsh
People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.
— Hillary Clinton
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
He stood looking up at her; it was not a glance, but an act of ownership. She thought she must let her face give him the answer he deserved. But she was looking, instead, at the stone dust on his burned arms, the wet shirt clinging to his ribs, the lines of his long legs. She was thinking of those statues of men she had always sought; she was wondering what he would look like naked. She saw him looking at her as if he knew that.
— Ayn Rand
He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.
— Ayn Rand
Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.
— Ayn Rand
She felt that his presence seemed more intensely real when she kept her eyes away from him, almost as if the stressed awareness of herself came from him, like the sunlight from the water.
— Ayn Rand