Quotes About Intimacy

it is an achievement, too: to be wholly understood by one person. [Édouard Manet]

You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.

down to her for a deep, openmouthed kiss flavored with her taste. He groaned hoarsely, sweeping

How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other reason to exist than to expose themselves totally to each other- totally, integrally, absolutely- so that their common solitude may appear not in front of their own eyes but in front of ours, yes, how not to look there and how not to rediscover "the negative community, the community of those who have no community"?

I would prefer not to: this sentence speaks in the intimacy of our nights: negative preference, the negation that effaces preference and is effaced therein: the neutrality of that which is not among the things there are to do.

Deux paroles étroitement serrées l'une contre l'autre, comme deux corps vivants, mais aux limites indécises.

The tone is not the writer's voice, but the intimacy of the silence he imposes upon the word. This implies that the silence is still his—what remains of him in the discretion that sets him aside. The tone makes great writers, but perhaps the work is indifferent to what makes them great.

it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in silence on the lips of true friendship and love, that are not to be found in the silence of other lips, to which friendship and love are unknown. …

If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I do indeed love him, will make clear in what depths lie the roots of my love, and will in its turn give birth to a conviction, that shall itself be silent; and in the course of a lifetime, this silence and this conviction will never again be the same. …

Love is a hollow in us, not the presence of the other.

Pénombre propice aux rencontres, à la confidence, aux échanges confiants. Calet n'a pas eu tort de vouloir s'y tenir et d'attendre qu'on vienne l'y retrouver. Brisée la glace du premier contact –un peu rude dans "La Belle Lurette"– des liens se tissent, intimes et solides, d'auteur à lecteur, d'homme à homme, de cœur à cœur. Ces attachements-là résistent au temps. (p. 117)

I'll eat you up I love you so.

It was one thing to invite a married man into your bed – and quite another to invite him to help you with the gardening.

I don't think you've been in love. Not recently, anyway. I'm not sure you remember what it's like. It compromises you. It takes over your body. Like a bareword. I think love is a bareword.

And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body is something special.

I love you,' she said. She nestled closer, her hand moving up the back of his neck. The wind lifted. 'Don't kill me,' he said. 'I'm not going to,' she said.

But the loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly, eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

To be with you somewhere within this evening's mystic shade, To hear your plans and hopes and tell you mine, all unafraid That you'd forget to hold them dear, When I'm away and you're not here.

Es ist bemerkenswert, dass wir gerade von dem Menschen, den wir lieben, am mindesten aussagen können, wie er sei.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Her white arms became my entire horizon ("The Rooster And The Pearl")

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.