Quotes About Intimacy

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

Part of the oddity of marriage, she thought, was in how unwise it was to attend too intently to the other person. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

And it's surprising how quickly you can get used to being loved

In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

I should have found you detestable.—Forgive that supposition.—By living with you on terms of close intimacy, I should have occasion, I doubt not, to see you in a cotton night-cap or in some absurd or grotesque domestic situation.—You

If you wish to be a saint, it is not hard. Have one aim--to please Jesus and to unite yourself more intimately to Him.

WARRIORS KNOW EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR BEING MOST INTIMATELY, EVEN THEIR LATENT TENDENCIES, AND MOST ESPECIALLY THEIR HIDDEN POTENTIAL. TO ACHIEVE THIS WARRIORS USE THE WORLD AROUND THEM AS A MIRROR, FOR IN THAT MIRROR ALL STANDS REVEALED. .

who says we can't touch ourselves to keep from getting bored? nothing else is touching thats for sure

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

I submitted entirely to the dog and, as a man with no gift for dancing, I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally, we kissed, the dog and I. Woke up feeling extremely satisfied.

Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulness Of dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight) At last they came, Their full communion And consummation, Their complete sphere, Was stillness for her, Silence for him.

Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?" Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.

But even though I like having sex with you, I think you're kind of a huge asshole, and I don't want to have to talk to you again.

Strange that it was so hard to tell much about a person with no clothes. Clothes gave you clues. Tossed

I want the soul stuff, the melding of the mind stuff.

I can't explain it. It's so, I don't know. Fleeting. Ephemeral." "You're analyzing sex?" He sounded amused. "Why not?" "Women analyze to death. Sometimes it's better not to think about things too deeply." She

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

A failure to pray was tantamount to a failure to breathe.

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it's the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it's almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can't take it. And at this moment you're a part of them.

When you were here before Couldn't look you in the eye You're just like an angel Your skin makes me cry

This is the essence of all games. Games are a way of using time for people who cannot bear the stroking starvation of withdrawal and yet whose NOT OK position makes the ultimate form of relatedness, intimacy, impossible.