Virginia Woolf Quotes

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

You can only be loved to the extent that you are known.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

You want to attach emotionally.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.