Quotes About Intimacy

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever.

That first loving kiss, the one that comes out of you from the source of your personal river, and the one that comes from her that is the same, there's never another moment like it; never another flame that burns so hot. It can never be that good again, ever. All manner of goodness can come after, but it's different. And that's a good thing, because if we burned that hot for too long, we'd be nothing but ash.

Puritan Thomas Gataker (1574–1654) said, "There is no society [relationship][3] more near, more entire, more needful, more kindly, more delightful, more comfortable, more constant, more continual, than the society of man and wife."[4] By the grace of God, such friendship between husbands and wives is possible and practical and should be our priority.

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.

This is the internal tragedy of love. If love is successful, if our love is returned and develops into a relationship, the person we are with must turn out to be other than we imagined them to be. Love craves closeness, and closeness always brings us face to face with something other than we expected.

Compatibility, on this view, is an achievement of love, not a precondition for love.

Every spouse is a potential best friend.

In all your love relationships, hide in friendship. It will protect you and keep your love forever.

A true friend is a foxhole friend.

Friendship is an intercourse of world. Mike Tyson became a friend of "Cus" D'Amato, and it took him from fighting on the street and going to prison to fighting in a ring for money.

Your spouse must become your best friend.

Draw closer to your spouse. Ask them questions. Open up to them. Involve them in every decision you make to make them your best friend.

The most trusted and loyal friendships in your life, will always be your oldest and longest friendships.

You can love without making friends.

Friendship precedes friends.

When the love of God is absent from friendships, friends don't become platonic friends anymore; they become boyfriends and girlfriends.

If I know your closest friends, I can accurately predict your future.

When friendship is fully in place in marriage, you would have very little to worry about.

Almost all petty challenges in marriages that lead to greater crisis are all traceable to the absence of friendship.

All proven loves are products of friendship.

A marriage without friendship is like a locked prison with lost keys.