Quotes About Intimacy

She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end of the afternoon, before we left the wood, and with a solemnity and sincerity, a complete dedication of herself that I cannot describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery...she said, Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you.

Just those three words, said and meant.I love you.

She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.

All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.

The thing I felt most clearly, when the first corner was turned, was that I had escaped. Obscurer, but no less strong, was the feeling that she loved me more than I loved her, and that consequently I had in some indefinable way won.

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.

El sexo nada importa. El amor, sí

Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.

Hemos estado completamente desnudos uno frente al otro... ¡No podemos estar más separados, sin embargo! Pero lo estamos

Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.

dragostea rezult? mai ales din aptitudinea de a iubi, existent? în noi înÈ™ine, È™i nu neap?rat din faptul c? partenerul are reale calit??i pentru a fi iubit.

La sfârÈ™it, am t?cut amândoi. Trebuie s? fi înÈ›eles. Dragostea este misterul între doi oameni, nu asem?narea dintre ei.

Cómo es posible que me ame como dice? ¿Cómo puede amarse a una persona a quien no se conoce?

That "small" emotion, love, grows amazingly when threatened with extinction.

Out of his other property, out of all the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling; out of her he got none.

FROME. What was the nature of your relations with him? RUTH. We were friends. THE JUDGE. Friends? RUTH. [Simply] Lovers, sir. THE JUDGE. [Sharply] In what sense do you use that word? RUTH. We love each other.

A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much

Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.

Too much intimacy, too quickly, can cause women to become needy and men to pull away. Just as men have a tendency to rush into physical intimacy, women make the mistake of rushing into complete emotional intimacy.

A man commonly makes the mistake of thinking that once he has met all of a woman's primary love needs, and she feels happy and secure, that she should know from then on that she is loved. This is not the case. To fulfill her sixth primary love need he must remember to reassure her again and again.

The closer we are to someone, the easier it is to bruise or be bruised.

Most men are not only hungry to give love but are starving for it. Their biggest problem is that they do not know what they are missing.

Some couples fight all the time, and gradually their love dies. On the other extreme, some couples suppress their honest feelings in order to avoid conflict and not argue. As a result of suppressing their true feelings they lose touch with their loving feelings as well. One couple is having a war while the other is having a cold war.

The more intimate we are with someone, the more difficult it is objectively to hear their point of view without reacting to their negative feelings. To protect ourselves from feeling worthy of their disrespect or disapproval automatic defenses come up to resist their point of view. Even if we agree with their point of view, we may stubbornly persist in arguing with them.