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Quotes About Intimacy

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Love is a friendship caught on fire.
~ Unknown
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.
~ Brendan Francis
True love is knowing a person's faults, and loving them even more for them.
~ Unknown
What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
I shall always be a priest of love.
~ D H Lawrence
How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.
~ Thomas Campbell
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
~ Alain de Botton
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
~ Unknown
This is my beloved this is my friend.
~ Bible
The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it?s not because they forget, it's because they forgive.
~ Unknown
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
~ Unknown
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other; it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other; it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
~ Anonymous
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
~ Unknown
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
~ Martin Buber
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
~ Julian Barnes
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
The only part of me I ever loved was the heart that you're in.
~ Unknown
Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.
~ Ken Keyes
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
~ George Santayana
Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart.
~ Ken Keyes
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a realtionship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it take two wholes.
~ Unknown
Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is inseparable from knowledge.
~ Unknown