Quotes tagged ‘Getting To Know Someone’

(8 total)

“But it's that moment, that boredom that's when you really get to know a person, you know? You're forced to be yourself or as close to your real self as you can be in front of another person.”

— David Wiener, Walter Cruz, Stephan James, imdb.com

“I’d like to walk around in your mind someday.”

— Vashti Bunyan, open.spotify.com

“We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“‘We’ve known each other forever,’ she said. ‘I can hardly remember not knowing you. It’s hard to remember the days before you. I don’t even know if there were any.’”

— David Guterson, amazon.com

“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…”

— Junot Dìaz, identitytheory.com

“It doesn’t interest me… what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me… how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doe…”

— Oriah, amazon.com

“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I’m surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you’re different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they c…”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“I think what I want is for someone to know me. Really know me. Know me better than anyone else and maybe even me. Isn’t that why we commit to another? It’s not for sex. If it were for sex, we wouldn’t marry one person. We’d just keep finding new partners. We commit for many reasons, I know, but the…”

— Iain Reid, amazon.com