Quotes About Intimacy

They might have done, many of them. So many people will do. But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with "will do"; it's worse than living with yourself.

They might have done, many of them. So many people will do. But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with will do; it's worse than living with yourself.

But once you've actually been in love, you can't live with "will do"; it's worse than living with yourself.

It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything in the world.

He kisses -- how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you

Così comincerò dalla fine, dicendovi che siamo tutti il grande amore di qualcuno

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.

I told her that what was most important to me was not whether she loved a man or a woman, but that she loved and was loved well—that she experience passion, and the wonderful surprise of finding that someone feels about you as strongly as you do about them, lucky and full-hearted.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

Depression is the flaw in love. If you were married to someone and thought, Well, if my wife dies, I'll find another one, it wouldn't be love as we know it. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

I understood that going where I would actually be foreign might distract people from the more intimate nature of my defining otherness.

All I know is what I have words for." The absence of words is the absence of intimacy; these experiences are starved for language.

I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

Technology is in its proper place when it helps us bond with the real people we have been given to love. It's out of its proper place when we end up bonding with people at a distance, like celebrities, whom we will never meet.

most conversations take at least seven minutes to really begin.1 Up until that point, we are able to rely on our usual repertoire of topics—the weather, routine reports about our day, minimal and predictable chitchat. But around seven minutes, there is almost always a point where someone takes a risk—or could take a risk. The risk may be silence; it may be an unexpected question or observation; it may be an expression of a deeper or different emotion than we usually allow.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Kiss me with your eyes.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

A: I like your apartment. B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person – or two people who are very close. A: You know two people who are very close?

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when he didn't come in my mouth.