Ira Sachs Quotes

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

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

Sex is a two-way treat.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

I believe in commitment. I believe in being open and trusting each other and respecting each other completely.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be there when you get back.

Intimacy is healing.

Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.

If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.