Quotes About Intimacy

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

If you have a solid friendship before dating, there's this understanding that you can be just youBut you should still have fun hooking up!

Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

The depth of a friendship - how much it means to us ... depends, at least in part, upon how many parts of ourselves a friend sees, shares and validates.

Friendship buys friendship.

Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.