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Quotes About Intimacy

In the end, the only truly intimate relationships are those between two people.
~ Yasmina Reza
Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
The rich eyelashes again made him think that her eyes were half open.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
But this love would leave behind it nothing so definite as a piece of Chijimi. Though cloth to be worn is among the most short-lived of craftworks, a good piece of Chijimi, if it has been taken care of, can be worn quite unfaded a half-century and more after weaving. As Shimamura thought absently how human intimacies have not even so long a life, the image of Komako as the mother of another man's children suddenly floated into his mind. He looked around, startled. Possibly he was tired.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Ella, mientras dormía, pronunciaba palabras de amor con los dedos de los pies.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
What I believe to be memories are probably daydreams. Still, my own sentimentality yearns for them as if they were the truth, suspect or twisted though they may be. I have forgotten that they were stories I heard from another and feel an intimacy with them as if they were my own direct memories -from Oil
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Seara, înainte s? adorm, închid ochii È™i num?r b?rbaÈ›ii pe care mi-ar pl?cea s?-i s?rut. Îi num?r folosind degetele. E distractiv. Când sunt mai puÈ›in de cele zece degete m? simt trist?.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
No me importa que sólo dure cinco o diez días, pero necesito a alguien que pueda hacerme olvidar completamente de mí misma.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
La conciencia de su propio cuerpo era inseparable del recuerdo de aquel abrazo.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
It was, with no attempt at covering itself, the naked heart of a woman calling out to her man.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
She was not a living doll, for there could be no living doll; but, so as not to shame an old man no longer a man, she had been made into a living toy. No, not a toy: for the old men, she could be life itself. Such life was, perhaps, life to be touched with confidence.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
And then you may think of it as promiscuous, but the girl herself is asleep, and doesn't even know who she has slept with. The girl the other time and the girl tonight will never know a thing about you, and to speak of promiscuousness is a little…
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Con el correr del tiempo, el recuerdo de aquel abrazo se fue purificando dentro de Otoko; fue dejando de ser algo físico para convertirse en algo espiritual. Ahora ella ya no era pura y sin duda Oki tampoco lo era. Y sin embargo, su antiguo abrazo, tal como lo veía ahora, parecía puro. Aquel recuerdo —en el que ella intervenía y no intervenía, que parecía real e irreal— era una visión sagrada, una visión sublimada del abrazo de antaño.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Nothing is so strange when one is in love.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Now that he was near her, this sighing of the human skin took on a dreamlike quality like the spell of the mountains.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Supongo que en una mujer hasta el odio es una forma del amor.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
It was a triviality, but the girl whose breast had been wet with blood had taught him that a man's lips could draw blood from almost any part of a woman's body; and, although afterwards Eguchi had avoided going to that extreme, the memory, the gift from a woman bringing strength to a man's whole life, was still with him, a full sixty-seven years old.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there.
~ Yehuda Amichai
People use each other as a healing for their pain. They put each other on their existential wound, on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand. They hold each other and won't let go.
~ Yehuda Amichai
When you give 100 percent to another person, two literally become one
~ Yehuda Berg
El amor de las almas gemelas sólo se reconoce por las miradas.
~ Unknown
Life with another person is always difficult.
~ Yoko Ono
C'est cela l'amour, non? Avouer là où l'on hésite, là où on faiblit.
~ Unknown
Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
~ Zadie Smith