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Quotes About Intimacy

Radio travels 186,000 miles a second, the same speed as light, or around the world about eight times a second, so radio is making the world smaller and better acquainted. Last month President Coolidge sat in his study and talked to millions of Americans by radio, and nothing is as intimate of personality as the voice.
~ American Lumberman, 1924
There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
~ Norman Mailer, 1992
Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.
~ Mark Twain
She could feel the echo of lovemaking in her body in the same way she could feel the rock and shift of waves after a day of swimming, long after she left the water.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled...
~ Harlan Ellison, 1968
My sexual preference is often.
~ Author Unknown
I think I could fall madly in bed with you.
~ Author Unknown
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
~ Billy Joel, unverified
Our soules, (which to advance their state, Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.... When love, with one another so Interinanimates two soules.... Loves mysteries in soules doe grow, But yet the body is his booke....
~ John Donne, "The Extasie"
There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be worse. But there is nothing exactly like it.
~ W. C. Fields
During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
~ Richard Lewis
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
~ Gore Vidal
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
~ Gore Vidal
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
~ Gore Vidal
For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
~ Gore Vidal
Sie ließen sich jetzt die Hände frei, ergriffen sie aber auf der Stelle wieder und beide sagten gleichzeitig: "Und wie geht es dir auch?" Aber statt sich zu antworten, fragten sie das gleiche aufs neue und die Antwort lag nur in den beredten Augen, da sie nach Art der Verliebten die Worte nicht mehr zu lenken wussten und, ohne sich weiter etwas zu sagen, endlich halb selig halb traurig auseinanderhuschten.
~ Gottfried Keller
How glad she was that none of them were really intimate friends. All of them new friends from Aunt Pat's circle of acquaintances. Her own girlhood friends were all too poor or too far away to be summoned.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
Well pleased, with a sigh of relief he dropped into the chair and sat watching her, talking idly, as one who is feeling his way to a pleasant intimacy of whose nature he is not quite sure. She was very sweet and sympathetic about the examinations, told how she hated them herself and thought they ought to be abolished; said he
~ Grace Livingston Hill
There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.
~ Grace Metalious
it. I kept thinking I should be here, being miserable with you. So, here I am." They sat for a long time, in a close embrace, with only a low light burning, staring
~ Grace Thompson
O isolamento em companhia de uma pessoa era mais opressivo que a solidão completa.
~ Graciliano Ramos
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.
~ Graham Norton