71 Intimacy Quotes

In a world where genuine connections often get lost amidst the hustle and bustle of daily life, intimacy serves as a cornerstone for meaningful relationships. Whether it’s the quiet comfort shared between lifelong partners or the deep bond between close friends, intimacy brings a sense of closeness and understanding that nourishes the soul. In this post, we have curated a collection of the top 71 intimacy quotes that beautifully encapsulate the essence of these cherished moments. These quotes offer insights, reflections, and wisdom that can inspire you to cultivate and cherish the intimate connections in your life. So, take a moment to delve into these poignant words and let them remind you of the power of deep, heartfelt connections.

1. “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

2. “Put work into your dreams.” - Lesley D. Nurse

3. “My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.” - Andrew Davidson

4. “For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.” - Gaston Bachelard

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. “This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)” - Elizabeth Gilbert

7. “The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.” - Aberjhani

8. “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. “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

10. “When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.” - Ian McEwan

11. “...they knew each other as much as they knew themselves, and their intimacy, rather like too many suitcases, was a matter of perpetual concern; together they moved slowly, clumsily, effecting lugubrious compromises, attending to delicate shifts of mood, repairing breaches. As individuals they didn't easily take offense; but together they managed to offend each other in surprising, unexpected ways; then the offender - it had happened twice since their arrival - became irritated by the cloying susceptibilities of the other, and they would continue to explore the twisting alleyways and sudden squares in silence, and with each step the city would recede as they locked tighter into each other's presence.” - Ian McEwan

12. “there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.” - Brad Meltzer

13. “The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western.COWBOY: "Gimme a shot of red-eye."SUBTITLE: "Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait."No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years.” - Peter Mayle

14. “Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

15. “Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.” - Haruki Murakami

16. “It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself” - Lou Andeas-Salome

17. “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

18. “The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy” - Richard Bach

19. “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

20. “The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage” - Josephine Hart

21. “Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.” - Barbara Cartland

22. “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

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

24. “There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.” - Tony Horwitz

25. “Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215” - Stephanie Dowrick

26. “God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

27. “Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

28. “The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

29. “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

30. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

31. “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

32. “Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said.Her eyes flicked downward, and her lips curved ever so slightly. "I know.""No," he groaned, pulling her closer. "I want to be in your heart. I want-" His entire body shuddered when their skin touched. "I want to be in your soul.” - Julia Quinn

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

34. “...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..” - John Geddes

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

36. “I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That’s what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn’t hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out...It felt like those moments when you go to a party and you're standing around for a long time, going, I don't fit in here, what am I going to talk to these people about? And everybody's getting drunk, and then you find this one person, and you end up sitting in some corner talking about all these arcane things.And then before you know it you're having a conversation about the meaning of life and it's four o’clock in the morning. That kind of feeling, that kind of intimacy — I felt like that's what I got from YA.” - Libba Bray

37. “On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open” - Bono

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

39. “Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.” - Marianne Williamson

40. “I like the way you touch me.""I like to touch you... That works out for us, huh?” - Jeffrey Brown

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

42. “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

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

44. “Open your eyes, baby. Look at me.” He pressed his forehead down to meet mine, my eyelids fluttering open at his command. “Look at me and tell me you don’t want it.”I peered up at him with unsteady breaths, hearing his throat work when I tilted my lips to graze his. The contact was feather light, my heart hammering through my chest at the feel of it. “I’m looking,” I breathed against him.“Good. Because right now, all I want to do is rip your clothes off and make you come until you can’t stand, and I want your eyes on me the whole time, are we clear?”-Jackson and Emma” - Rachael Wade

45. “Happiness is hanging with friends who know you way more than you'd care to share.” - Todd Stocker

46. “ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.” - Stephen Dunn

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

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

49. “Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

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

51. “Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

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

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

54. “Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

55. “There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

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

58. “Build up your faith while starving the fears.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

59. “Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

60. “Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

61. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

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

63. “Light is life and always wins.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

65. “Desire to give and not always receive.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

66. “The giver is the blessed! The receiver stands still.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

67. “Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

69. “Niets is zo mooi als de eerste eenzame minuten met iemand die jou zou kunnen beminnen en iemand die je zelf zou kunnen beminnen. Er bestaat niets dat zo stil is als die minuten, niets zo verzadigd met liefdelijke verwachting. In die paar minuten heeft men lief, niet in de vele die volgen. Nooit meer weet zij, zal zo iets schoons hen overkomen. Blijer zullen ze misschien worden, beter ook, en oneindig tevreden met elkaars lichaam. Maar nooit zal het meer zo schoon zijn.” - Stig Dagerman

70. “There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are.” - Jennifer Dubois

71. “Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived abandonment would feel old hat. The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality.I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise.Engage is the key word here. Except, when I engage, when it happens, when I’m left behind it doesn’t feel old hat. It feels like it did the first time and it takes me by surprise. So, I don’t let it happen.” - Penny Reid