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Powerful 60 Intimacy Quotes to Bring Couples Closer

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November 2, 2022

Intimacy is usually confused with sex but actually, it involves emotionally deep feelings connected with another person. It is something that is not achieved quickly but also rather something that continues to mature and evolve with time. We have some great intimacy quotes to bring couples closer. Check out and share them with your loved ones.

“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

“Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.” – Amy Bloom

“If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.” – Henri Nouwen

“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.” – Joyce Brothers

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” – Scott Fitzgerald

“Love is a serious mental illness.” – Plato
“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

“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.” – Robert Sternberg
“Intimacy doesn’t have all that much to do with the back seats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.” – Gabrielle Zevin
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.” – Laren Oliver
“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
“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

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Intimacy Sayings

“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
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.” – Rollo May
“The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.” – Dean Ornish
“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.” – Aberjhani
“Love is beyond sex and physical touch. Love is kind words, a reassuring smile, one that is not jealous and keeps a record of wrongdoings. Love is knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will always be there for that person and they will always be there for you.”
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” – John Joseph Powell
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been.” – Raymond Carver
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.” – Madeline Miller

Powerful Intimacy Quotes

Looking for powerful intimacy quotes to build emotional intimacy between you and your partner? You can send these quotes to them to show love, care, safety, acceptance, and connection. These quotes will surely help you to build a strong and long-lasting relationship.

“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
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.” – Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alain de Botton
“The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It’s Intimacy” – Richard Bach
“This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.” – Iain Thomas
“A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you’ll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you’ll know true intimacy.” – M.J. Abraham

Intimacy in Relationship Quotes

“Just because lips have met doesn’t mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn’t mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.” – Joshua Harris
“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.” – Anatole Broyard
“His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.” – N.R. Walker
“Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.” – Michel Faber
“Intimacy is not purely physical. It’s the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.” – Reshall Varsos

Intimacy Quotes For Him

Men and women react differently to various things because they have their own mindsets and thoughts. If you want to get close to your male partner then send or tag him in these lovely intimacy quotes for him.

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alain de Botton
“his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively — I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.” – Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
“See, don’t just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It’s how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.” – Suzan Battah
“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people’s blood. No, it was that she might push him away.” – John Ajvide Lindqvist
“You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” – Junot Díaz
“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self–the deepest fears, the hidden desires–a powerful intimacy is born.” – Sarah Pekkanen
“I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.” – Hisham Matar
“All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.” – Criss Jami
“Playfulness and Passion… Friendship and Intimacy… I want a relationship with a good flirt to roast ratio.” – Steve Maraboli
“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.” – Brad Meltzer
“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“The energy that it takes to make real soul-satiating love takes a lot of sensual investment in one’s self.” – Lebo Grand
“The relationship we have with our desires/sensuality plays a huge and significant role in the way we want to feel in an intimate relationship with a lover.” – Lebo Grand

Intimacy Quotes For Her

It’s very difficult to get close to women because they have their own thoughts and thinking. If you want to get close to your female partner then use these quotes with your lady. These quotes will surely help you to build a strong relationship with her.

“Part of what made this so hard was that he didn’t have any of the more convenient complaints people cited to end a marriage; adultery, neglect, constant arguing. They just lacked a fundamental intimacy that kept someone from feeling alone in the world.” – Tracey Lange
“I love being touched. I don’t like the expectations that come with it.” – Linsey Miller
“Ladies, all the possibilities of the love or lover you’re looking for lie in your sensuality.” – Lebo Grand
“To be wrapped up asleep in each other’s arms like two coiled snakes, that is peace. That is love.” – Marty Rubin
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alin De Bottom

Connection Intimacy Quotes

“When people know you too well, they eventually see your damage, your weirdness, carelessness, and mean streak. They see how ordinary you are after all, that whatever it was that distinguished you, in the beginning, is the least of who you actually are. This will turn out to be the greatest gift we can offer another person: letting them see, every so often, beneath all the trappings and pretense to the truth of us.” – Anne Lamott
“The wisdom of sensuality needs no guidance, only permission from you.” – Lebo Grand

Intimacy in Relationship Quotes

“I decided to become a women’s sensuality coach because in every relationship I got into, I yearned for a sensual ‘touch’ like a baby yearns for his mother’s milk. But there was very little to none.” – Lebo Grand
“Without the sensuality of the heart and soul, there is no sensuality at all, just smoke and mirrors.” – Lebo Grand
“May you attract someone who is in touch with their sensuality so you don’t have to spend a lifetime translating your soul.” – Lebo Grand
“A sensual woman ignites depths in you that lay dormant.” – Lebo Grand
“Your ability to give what is real and effective is directly proportional to your ability to receive what is real and meaningful to you.” – Betty Martin
“So powerful will be our intimacy, that words, mere words, would do it great injustice.”- A.D. Aliwat
“Women should be satisfied not scrutinized.” – Habeeb Akande
“He senses a certain receptivity in her expression, like she’s gathering information about his feelings, something they have learned to do to each other over a long time, like speaking a private language.” – Sally Rooney