Quotes About Intimacy

To be truly seen and heard, to be truly known, is a deep human need. Our hunger for it is so omnipresent, so much a part of our experience of life, that we no more know what it is we are missing than a fish knows it is wet.

We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption — anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.

Satan's primary goal is to prevent us from having an intimate relationship with the Lord. He

As long as you hold Him at arm's length, you cannot know Him. This is because abiding relationships, including yours with the Lord, can only exist and grow through mutual intimacy. Friend, the only relationship that can fill your longings, sustain you through difficulties, and bring you peace is the relationship you have with God. Don't hold Him back in any way.

Promiscuous animals, by and large, have smaller brains, for relationship demands a good deal of processing power, and promiscuity is a denial of relationship. Monogamy, as many of us know, is costly and hard: it demands work, though the pay-off can be profound. The work is often emotional work: give and take; forgiveness and forbearance.

Your kiss at night is the sweetest for sure It allows me to dream of a thousand more.

A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.

A lover counts time in kisses, not years.

Strong love paralyzes the vocal cords, leaving the functions of speech to looks, hugs, and osculation.

A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time.

Kiss: love professed through lips.

Kisses change hue with each lover.

When I kiss you, I can taste your soul.

Your kisses are no asterisk, no postscript — they're always the matter at hand.

My debt to you is countless caressing kisses.

I thank you for such a long letter, and yet if I might choose, the next should be a longer. I think a letter just about three days long would make me happier than any other kind of one, if you please...

Since I have no sweet flower to send you, I enclose my heart.

Hot lovers don't feel the cold.

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.

The road of love does not know distance.

You divide my soul into love and be-loved, with no discernible boundaries.

Love works. Lust plays.

When it comes to hiding porn, every man is a CIA agent.

There are some towns so small that your second best friend is your third worst enemy.