Intimacy Quotes

Yet velvet curtains, soft cheese, compelling work and boys who can run full-tilt—it isn't enough. An...

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one anot...

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I u...

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting ha...

Now, watching her sleep, and closing his eyes, he felt, in this particular intimacy - stowed beneath...

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like so...

...they knew each other as much as they knew themselves, and their intimacy, rather like too many su...

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with...

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years wo...

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

The best sex takes place in the mind first

There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger t...

Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis...

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying th...

his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...

If I die this instant will you be more content with the morning news? Will your coffee taste better?...

Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how heali...

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

I've given myself to you. You may have my body, soul, everything. Time passes, and all I want is the...

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by G...

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, som...

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed,...

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know a...

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewin...

Well, I've kept you waiting long enough," he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking a...

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have trav...

the sweet juices of your mouthare like castles bathed in honey.i've never had it done so gently befo...

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the min...

That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the mo...

We became six people at a table in Hampton Court. We rose and walked together down the avenue. In th...

Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s p...

I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--kno...

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately...

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to yo...

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of id...

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have kn...

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their live...

The second hugely seductive move is to signal that we view the other person with a mixture of tender...

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We mig...

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to...

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen w...

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifti...

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment ...

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital i...

There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing...

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be int...

For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hu...

The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physica...

On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be ca...

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversha...

Clothes falling away signals a situation that I'll likely avoid putting into words. If clothes don't...

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiratio...

Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry o...

Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.

We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy.

They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.

Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that dro...

Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- becaus...

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and th...

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inhe...

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings...

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...

We also fought about everything -- like real sisters. We fought about money, bedrooms, whose car to ...

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became ...

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two date...

To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...

That would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each ...

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely reveal...

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determin...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, ...

On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclin...

Intimacy cannot be expressed discursively. The swelling to the bursting point, the malice that break...

Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's k...