Quotes About Intimacy

From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

I'm an emotional guy, so I don't have to worry about a girl trying to get me to open up.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.

It has to go to the level of emotional connection, where you feel without it you're lost.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.

In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.

My favorite episode is where the guy has a relationship with his car. An intimate and sexual and emotional relationship with his car.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder.... At this size they're edible. You don't just scan them. You take them in all at once.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

If and when you do decide to share your experience with your husband, it should be because you feel ready to do so, not for any other reason.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.