Intimacy means "into me see"!
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?
I try to stay away from forced intimacy.
I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy.
Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.
You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.
Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
They spent their time doing nothing. . . they let intimacy fuse them.
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.
In Dardenne brothers' films is a really small kind of humanity. It's not like the titanic "humanity" of humanism, it's much more gritty and realistic. But again, humanity is what unites all the people I'm talking about, and in such different ways. The humanity is in that moment you glimpse someone and have a completely intimate moment with them, and that intimacy is connected to an extreme pathetic aspect.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.