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Quotes About Intimacy

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
~ Thomas More
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
~ Mortimer Adler
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
~ Thomas Moore
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
~ Truman Capote
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
~ James Joyce
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
~ Francis Bacon
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
~ Unknown
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~ Marlene Dietrich
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies
~ Aristotle
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
~ George Washington
A simple pause of silence between friends, even if merely for one beautiful second, is a chance for their souls to mingle and truly appreciate the intricacies of each other.
~ Unknown
When you're with someone you trust in, never needing to pretend, someone who helps you to know yourself, you know you're with a friend.
~ Unknown
The person who makes you happiest is the person who can hurt you the most.
~ Unknown
A friend is like a good bra hard to find, supportive, comfortable, always lifts you up, makes you look better, and always....close to your heart!
~ Unknown
It's not how many friends you have it's the quality of friends you have.
~ Unknown