Quotes About Intimacy

the more I live the more I think two people together is a miracle.

You've kissed my hair to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem, I say, a poem I wanted to show someone… and I laugh and fall dreaming again of the desire to show you to everyone I love, to move openly together in the pull of gravity

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things

I want to crawl into her for refuge lay my head in the space between her breast and shoulder abnegating power for love as women have done

We did this. Conceived of each other, conceived each other in darkness which I remember as drenched in light.           I want to call this, life.

You breathe upon us now through solid assertions of yourself: teaspoons, goblets, seas of carpet, a forest of old plants to be watered an old man in an adjoining room to be touched and fed. And all this universe dares us to lay a finger anywhere, save exactly as you would wish it done.

We murmur moonwords.

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

I think that you can get more passionate about somebody the longer you're with them and the more you know them and the more you go through together. Being married is definitely better than it's cracked up to be I think.

I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Marriage is not always peaceful.

At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that.

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

I'm single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I'm going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen -sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

He crushes me so hard that I shall break, frail little creature that I know I am; but once he is in me nothing else exists, and I could have my four limbs cut away without awakening from my ecstasy.