Quotes About Intimacy

Occasionally, though, an introduction to someone new is more intense and intimate from the get-go. Maybe we share the same sense of humor or we admire the other individual's personality or passion. Or we immediately sense that we can just be ourselves around that person. Things feel right; we hit it off. There is an immediate sense of familiarity and comfort. Conversation flows easily, without embarrassing pauses or self-consciousness. In essence, we click.

Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips... Die into me or don't come to me at all.

Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.

I want to live with deep intimacy every day of my life. I am guided, sometimes driven, by an ache to take the necessary risks that will let me live close to what is within and around me. And I am sometimes afraid that it will be too much, that I will not have, or be connected to, whatever it takes to be with it all, to bear the exquisite beauty and bone-wrenching sorrow of being fully alive.

If we have based parts of our lives on lies, or truths that no longer hold, however well intentioned or unconscious, the changes that deep intimacy evokes can look very dangerous.

Il nostro rapporto non è che un contatto epidermico, un esercizio di sesso, una appagante ginnastica, insomma un dialogo da sordomuti.

In fondo, per certa gente, la vera colpa di un uomo e di una donna consiste nell'amarsi in un letto

No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

El amor, a quien pintan ciego, es vidente y perspicaz porque el amante ve cosas que el indiferente no ve y por eso ama

Women found in me a man who could keep a love secret.

When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like a " withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool." I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness.

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between he and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship

never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics. But in their arms I felt absolute security. I could sleep soundly.

I'm told that some men heat their bath water by burning the love letters they get from women

I felt, rather, as if being next to her in itself made it unnecessary to worry.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves

Women found in me a man who could keep could keep a love secret.

When you come face to face with absolute reliability, you tend, first of all, to burst into silly laughter. You just come all undone. It's like-this is a funny way to put it, I know, but it's like chuckling with relief after loosening your belt. Young men, if ever the one you love bursts out laughing the moment she sees you, you are to be congratulated. By no means must you reproach her. She has merely been overwhelmed by the absolute reliability she senses in you.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between Horiki and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship

But those people who live life with a practical heart in actuality make us feel quite sad. I do not dislike my brother in any way, but I do not feel the kind of intimacy that would make me want to share everything that I feel with him. I feel the same way towards my father.

There has never been a single example of love without words in the history of the world. To stay silent because you really love someone is proof of a terribly stubborn complacency.

Love is words. If words were to disappear, then love would be gone as well from this world in the very same instant. It's a huge mistake to think that love can take shape in something other than language.

Having a good sense of humor about sex will keep things in perspective.