Got Valentine’s Day, a birthday, an anniversary, or something else to celebrate with your significant other around the corner? Check out these amazing intimacy quotes and sayings. There are some intimacy quotes for him, and some intimacy quotes for her, but all in all, these can be used to really express how you feel.
1. “Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.”
Rollo May
2. “If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.”
Cate Blanchett
3. “Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”
Amy Bloom
4. “Love is a serious mental illness.”
Plato
5. “If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”
Henri Nouwen
6. “Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”
Joyce Brothers
7. “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
Scott Fitzgerald
8. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou
9. “Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”
Robert Sternberg
10. “Intimacy doesn’t have all that much to do with back seats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.”
Gabrielle Zevin
11. “The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.”
Dean Ornish
12. “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
13. “Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”
Bertrand Russell
14. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
Ann Landers
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