Quotes about Intimacy
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?
— Alain de Botton
Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate.
— Alain de Botton
For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.
— Alain de Botton
Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.
— Alain de Botton
Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit confession.
— Alain de Botton
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
— Alain de Botton
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
— Oswald Chambers
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.
— John Lennon
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky