Quotes About Intimacy

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made.

Cred c? cel mai mare dar pe care l-a? putea primi de la cineva este s? fiu v?zut?, ascultat?, in?eleas? ?i atins?.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Tu connais l'effet que je fais au mecs: les premiers mois, ils adorent ça, que j'aille si mal et ils veulent toujours m'aider. Seulement point trop n'en faut: trop de douleur pourrait tacher le canapé...

C'est de l'amour qu'il veut lui faire entrer dans le corps et elle s'ouvre autant que possible. En même temps, elle se sent désolée. Son corps est encombrant, elle est enterrée vive sous lui. Nausée.

Men] have to be the ones to make the woman come. Female masturbation continues to be contemptible and secondary. The orgasm we are supposed to reach is the one given by the man.

Así que estaban los Kerner, llenos de odio, entrelazados en secreto por el espasmo sexual, y estaban mis padres, que se llamaba el uno al otro pero cuyo lecho campaba castamente en campo abierto. Abajo la casa un desastre, el marido estaba exiliado en el salón, a las posar una soñadora medio lunática; arriba todo estaba como una patena el marido en el centro de todo y la esposa, vehemente y obstinada.

This is the intimacy that will bind us all our lives, holding us forever to the task implicit in all love relations: how to connect yet not merge, how to respond yet not be absorbed, how to detach but not withdraw.

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.

All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

This whole kissing process was turning out to be far more complicated and stressful than I'd thought it would be.

How can you not help having sex with someone?

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Open your heart and take us in, Love — love and me.

I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.

for once in our lives / Everything became a You and nothing was an It.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.