Quotes About Intimacy

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

For years, my marriage to Prince was mine. The idea of exposing myself to the world... was terrifying.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

Television is an intimately personal medium, especially with so many people watching on their phones or laptops. Style pressure comes with the territory.

I think that whether you're married or not, in any relationship, there's always the terror that you're going to screw something up.

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

A man who is invested takes the time to get to know you well, and his gifts will be a testament to his expert grasp of your likes and dislikes.

People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship.

What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after, can provide testimony or a point of view.

I want to cry in your arms for a hundred years; I want to wake up in your arms for a hundred years.

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.

I'm desperate to get inside Lucy's pants

Partly James was jealous because he was a virgin, but mostly it just felt really weird being in a room with two people who'd spent the night having sex. It reminded him of the feeling you get when you pull a hair off your tongue and realise it's not one of your own.

Now I'm gonna take her to a hotel room and have a damned good sha—

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.

Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or even about possibly indifferent people, people who are absent or perhaps dead, or unborn; the suicide of psychiatrists coming from too much attention, in most intimate contact, concentrated upon the feelings of people toward whom one may feel indifferent, people who are certain, sooner or later, to die...

Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.