Karen Salmansohn Quotes

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that’s where safety lives.

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

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

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

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

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.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

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.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

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

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?