Quotes About Intimacy

Dal mio quarto piano sull'infinito, nella plausibile intimità della sera che sopraggiunge, a una finestra che dà sull'inizio delle stelle, i miei sogni si muovono con l'accordo di un ritmo, con una distanza rivolta verso viaggi a paesi ignoti, o ipotetici, o semplicemente impossibili.

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It's exceedingly important that we not love).

Lacking the ability to love, we grow weary, even before they are spoken, of the words we would have to say in order to be loved.

Considero mie, con maggiore consanguineità e intimità, talune figure che sono scritte nei libri, certe immagini che ho conosciuto nelle illustrazioni, più di molte persone che sono considerate reali, che sono fatte di quell'inutilità metafisica chiamata carne e ossa.

In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth floor room that looks out on the infinite, my dreams move to the rhythm required by long journeys to countries as yet unknown, or to countries that are simply hypothetical or impossible.

I feel more kinship and intimacy with certain characters described in books and certain images I've seen in prints than I feel with many so-called real people, who are of that metaphysical insignificance known as flesh and blood. And 'flesh and blood' in fact describes them rather well: they're like chunks of meat displayed in the window of a butcher's, dead things bleeding as if they were alive, shanks and cutlets of Destiny.

Quando ti vidi, già da molto prima io ti avevo amato. Nell'incontrarti io ti ho ritrovato. ... Hai forse un segreto? Confidalo, che io so tutto di te, se me lo dirai con l'anima. Potrai dirmelo con parole difficili, e io capirò solo perché ti amo. Se il tuo segreto è triste, con te piangerò finché non lo dimenticherai. E se non puoi dirlo, dimmi che mi ami, e io capirò senza volere il tuo segreto.

El amor sin ternura es puro afán de dominio y de autoafirmación hasta lo destructivo. La ternura sin amor es sensiblería blanda incapaz de crear nada.

De cerca o de lejos, siempre éramos conscientes de nuestro vínculo, del lazo de fuego que nos hacía existir en la calma y en la borrasca.

the uncensorable power of the simplest form of private literature: the letter home.

After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story.

I love relationships; they fascinate me.

I think looking is the essential act of loving. Brothers, fathers and sons, lovers, whatever. What you do when you love someone is look at that person as that person is.

There's nothing quite as perfect as going to a dark room where you can eat fattening food next to the man you love. OK. All right. Like. The man you like.

At the end of the day, we want love, and we want to feel loved.

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Just because I give you a piece of me doesn't mean you get it all. There's very few people in my life who get it all, and that's sacred to me.

I have very few people, who I can call my own and trust them.