Intimate Quotes

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.

Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God--it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

With Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generations–a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.

Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.