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Quotes About Intimacy

Love is a friendhip with erotic moments.
~ Antonio Gala
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ St Jerome
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
~ Amy Lowell
If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly
~ Thomas More
Love and friendship exclude each other
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and suddenly, you go all the way inside, to their soul... and you both know, instantly.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
~ Marcel Proust
They do not love that do not show their love.
~ William Shakespeare
The best proof of love is trust.
~ Unknown
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
~ Tori Amos
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
~ Thomas Carlyle
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
~ Lord Byron
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
~ Erich Fromm
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn
~ Marcel Jouhandeau
Love is not a force between a mind and a body, but a force between two hearts. Your mind and eyes will never tell you when you feel true love, for only your heart can recieve the true love that another heart sends directly to it.
~ Unknown
There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession
~ Fran Lebowitz
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Economized love is never real love
~ Honore de Balzac
When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
~ Elizabeth Bowen