72 Quotes On Deep Intimacy

Intimacy is one of the most profound aspects of human connection, transcending physical boundaries to touch the very essence of our souls. It's a delicate dance of vulnerability, trust, and understanding that brings us closer to others and, ultimately, ourselves. In today's fast-paced world, nurturing deep intimacy can be challenging, yet it remains a vital part of our emotional well-being and personal growth. To inspire and guide you on your journey toward deeper connections, we've curated a collection of 72 quotes that explore the many dimensions of intimacy. These words of wisdom, from thinkers and writers across time and cultures, offer insights and reflections that may help you appreciate and cultivate the intimate bonds in your life. Dive in and discover the power of intimacy to transform your relationships and enrich your life.

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. “Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.” - Gaston Bachelard

5. “Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.” - Aberjhani

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away.When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute.Remember a searing look of intimate eyes.Receive the inner fire.” - Vera Nazarian

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

10. “Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.” - Malcolm Bradbury

11. “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

12. “The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.” - Peter Hessler

13. “...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

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

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. “Možda se nijedna druga vrsta intimnosti ne može uporediti sa dva polgeda koja se susreću sa istom sigurnošću i odlučnošću i jednostavnošću odbijaju da se puste.” - Jostein Gaarder

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

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

19. “It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.” - Elizabeth Kostova

20. “See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.” - Suzan Battah

21. “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

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

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

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. “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

26. “It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.” - Catherynne M. Valente

27. “Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath her duvet - that he was intruding. At the same time, he knew, settling down, you couldn´t dislike anyone you'd seen sleep” - Hanif Kureishi

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

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

30. “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

31. “...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...” - John Geddes

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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “Linda Boone; Intimate Life Lessons: developing the intimacy with God you already have.” - Linda Boone

36. “oaking” seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to “soak in and soak up” His presence, “soak in and soak up” His love. Soaking is positioning yourself before God for the sole purpose of experiencing His presence and His love for you.” - Linda Boone

37. “Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.” - Linda Boone

38. “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

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

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

41. “...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...” - John Geddes

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

43. “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

44. “In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.” - Fulton J. Sheen

45. “What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.” - John Ajvide Lindqvist

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

47. “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

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

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

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

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

52. “Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

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

54. “Sow good seeds for a good yield.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

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

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

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

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

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

61. “Have the best course for all your actions.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

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

63. “Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

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

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

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

68. “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

69. “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

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. “We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.” - Kamila Shamsie

72. “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