Quotes About Intimacy

All lasting and successful marriages are the result of enduring friendship.

The only relationship that gives the fullest expression of friendship is marriage.

See your spouse as your best friend, not only a wife or a husband.

The best couple are simply best friends.

The greatest person every spouse yearns his partner to be is to simply be their best friend.

Everyone possesses the spirit of his friend.

Until you love your spouse enough to make them your best friend, you could stay with them for years and never taste the friend in them.

The best relationship for the full consummation of friendship is marriage.

Any friend you make becomes one with your spirit.

Make your spouse your best friend. This won't happen overnight; it takes hard work.

When you become so much obsessed with your marriage; you lose your friendship with your spouse.

Friendship is a relationship for spirits.

To become best friends in marriage all you need to do is to be each other's friend.

Friendship is fusion of spirits. This may be too high to comprehend. But a true friendship is not a relationship that is physical; it's highly spiritual.

Most marriages take friendships for granted; that's why there are only few spouse's who are best friends.

I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.

Her mouth tasted of smoke and toothpaste and something feety that made my blood flare

A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

He had a special fondness for the moving parts of women, their wrists, their butterfly-shaped ankles, their shoulder blades like a swan's folded wings. In particular he treasured their knees, especially the back of them, where the skin was pale, milk-blue, with delicate fissures, little fine cracks, as in the most fragile old pieces of bone china. — John Banville, April in Spain (Hanover Square Press, 2021)

We understood each other, yes, but that did not mean we knew each other, or wanted to. How would we have maintained that unselfconscious grace that was so important to us both, if we had not also maintained the essential secretness of our inner selves?

Tal y como están las cosas hoy en día, el sexo no significa nada. Es solo un deporte, como el tenis, ¿sabes? Lo que verdaderamente es íntimo entre un hombre y una mujer es la comunicación.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Father, I want to continue to always grow into a more intimate relationship with You. Expose the areas of my life that hinder me from being Christlike, and cause my life to reflect the character of my precious Savior and Lord.

La comunión íntima de Jehová es con los que le temen y a ellos hará conocer su pacto" (Salmo 25:14).