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Quotes About Intimacy

There were those apres-sex moments when, in a half-asleep or forgetting that I was with a woman, I would reach out and touch her vagina- only to suddenly pull back my hand, as if surprised.
~ John Irving
There is at least one terrible thing about lovers – real lovers, I mean: people who are in love with each other, even then they will relish their every physical contact in a sexual way; even when they're supposed to be in a kind of mourning, they can get aroused. Franny and I simply couldn't have gone on holding each other on the stairs: it was impossible to touch each other, at all, and not want to touch everything.
~ John Irving
They resembled an elderly, long-married couple—devoted to each other without conversation.
~ John Irving
I didn't try to say the penis word for Elaine. Cock, I said to her.
~ John Irving
A loving couple will say things to each other - you know, Danny - just to make each other feel good about a situation, even if the situation isn't good, or it they shouldn't feel good about i, Ketchum said. A loving couple will make up their own rules, as if these made-up rules were as reliable or counted for as much as the rules everyone else tried to live by - if you know what I mean.
~ John Irving
though there was nothing wrong with Garp's hands – they just seemed to be clumsy at masturbation. 'Garp!
~ John Irving
What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what's on his wife's mind?
~ John Irving
I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.
~ John Keats
And how they kist each other's tremulous eyes.
~ John Keats
Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .
~ John Keats
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever-or else swoon to death.
~ John Keats
The Master was slipping from his official position momentarily, and it was just possible, if Phineas pressed hard enough, that there might be a flow of simple, unregulated friendliness between them, and such flows were one of Finny's reasons for living.
~ John Knowles
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
~ John Lennon
Everything is clearer when you're in love.
~ John Lennon
Remember to let her into your heart.
~ John Lennon
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
~ John Lennon
Give us a kiss
~ John Lennon
Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.
~ John Lennon
I wanna hold your gland.
~ John Lennon
Men hide to make love but practice violence in daylight
~ John Lennon
Jealousy can wreck a marriage, try getting to know the postman.
~ John Lennon
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. IRWIN CAREY
~ John Lloyd
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only. RÉMY DE GOURMONT
~ John Lloyd
One night in bed Jennings complained that Brand's monologues were growing harsh and boring. She asked him to please "gentle up.
~ John Markoff