45 Quotes On Building Intimacy

In a world where digital communication often overshadows face-to-face connection, building intimacy has become both a challenge and a necessity. Whether it's deepening a romantic relationship, strengthening friendships, or fostering closer family ties, intimacy plays a crucial role in our emotional well-being and personal growth. By engaging with timeless wisdom and insights, we can learn how to nurture and sustain these vital connections. In this thoughtfully curated collection, we present 45 quotes that illuminate the path to building intimacy, offering inspiration, reflection, and guidance for those seeking to enrich their relationships. Explore these quotes to not only deepen your understanding of intimacy but also to spark meaningful conversations and transformative experiences with the people who matter most in your life.

1. “Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.” - Anatole Broyard

2. “The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.” - Wendy Wasserstein

3. “Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.” - Douglas Coupland

4. “I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.” - Raymond Carver

5. “If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.” - Fernando Pessoa

6. “I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.” - Iris Murdoch

7. “the sweet juices of your mouthare like castles bathed in honey.i've never had it done so gently before.you have put a circle of castlesaround my penis and you swirl themlike sunlight on the wings of birds.” - Richard Brautigan

8. “Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance is always knowing exactly where that someone else's hands are. She smiled and said, there was a time I thought that way, too. But at the heart of the romance is the knowledge that those hands may wander off elsewhere, but somehow through luck or destiny or plain blind groping they'll find a way back to you, and maybe you'll be smart enough then to be grateful for everything that's still possible, in spit of your own weaknesses- and his.” - Kamila Shamsie

9. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” - Jane Austen

10. “Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities.” - R.M. Jones

11. “I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.” - Wallace Stegner

12. “We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.” - Richard Brautigan

13. “Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.” - Jess C. Scott

14. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.” - Alain De Botton

15. “I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.” - Lauren Oliver

16. “Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

17. “For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.” - Damon Suede

18. “Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

19. “On fréquente les gens pendant des années, parfois des dizaines d'années, en s'habituant peu à peu à éviter les questions personnelles et les sujets réellement importants ; mais on garde l'espoir que plus tard, dans des circonstances plus favorables, on pourra justement aborder ces sujets, ces questions ; la perspective indéfiniment repoussée d'un mode de relation plus humain et plus complet ne s'efface jamais tout à fait, simplement parce que c'est impossible, parce qu'aucune relation humaine ne s'accommode d'un cadre définitivement étroit et figé. La perspective demeure, donc, d'une relation "authentique et profonde" ; elle demeure pendant des années, parfois des dizaines d'années, jusqu'à ce qu'un événement définitif et brutal (en général de l'ordre du décès) vienne vous apprendre qu'il est trop tard, que cette relation "authentique et profonde" dont on avait caressé l'image n'aurait pas lieu, elle non plus, pas davantage que les autres. (Les particules élémentaires, 3e partie, chapitre 1)” - MICHEL HOUELLEBECK

20. “The best sex takes place in the mind first” - Jenna Jameson

21. “Umm, well do I have to tell you how it’s done?” I tease, as I get on my knees and lean over him, . A wide smile spreads over his face as I straddle his lap.“Oh, are you taking dominance? I think I like that.” He grips his hands on my hips, pulling me as close as he can get.” - Annie Brewer

22. “If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better? I am not your fate. I am not your government…I am not your mother, not your father or your nightmare or your health. I am not a fence, not a wall. I am not the law or actuarial tables of your insurance broker. I am a woman with my guts loose in my hands, howling and it’s not because I committed hari-kiri. I suggest either you cook me or sew me back up. I suggest you walk into my pain as into the breaking waves of an ocean of blood, and either we will climb out together and walk away.” - Marge Piercy

23. “Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get.” - John Valentine

24. “Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.” - John Green

25. “The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.” - Frank Harris

26. “When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.” - David D. Burns

27. “This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.” - Sean Gabler

28. “This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn’t just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need—it was an offering.” - Rachael Wade

29. “There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

30. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

31. “Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

32. “Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

33. “Life is beautiful if you take the best option.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

34. “It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

35. “Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

36. “You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

37. “Relish what is good and expedient.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

38. “Sow the right words! Think the good thought.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

39. “Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

40. “Shine forth your light before all beings.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

41. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

42. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

43. “What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?” - Jeanette Winterson

44. “Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.” - Anyaele Sam Chiyson

45. “There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and so they were precious, it was that feeling, and the sense of the miracle of this shared moment, here and now. Why were we so far apart, even when we are together? It was anice loneliness, like th sensation of washing your face with cold water.” - Banana Yoshimoto