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Quotes About Intimacy

Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store, But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no more.
~ John Donne
Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.
~ John Donne
lovers' hours be full eternity
~ John Donne
MARK but this flea
~ John Donne
Since thou and I sigh one another's breath, Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.
~ John Donne
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
~ John Donne
full nakedness! all my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
~ John Donne
Love is love's reward.
~ John Dryden
Love is love's reward.
~ John Dryden
You can always tell a happy marriage. People in love begin to acquire each other's traits, each other's styles- they begin to look and act alike. They want to please. They admire each other and, naturally enough, want to become what they esteem and cherish.
~ John Dufresne
Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.
~ H. L. Mencken
My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.
~ Jean Peters
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
~ Youssou N'Dour
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.
~ Kevin Hart
Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
~ Kristin Armstrong
I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I've always been someone who's kept my private life a little private. When there's a ring on my finger, I'll talk about it.
~ Priyanka Chopra
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
~ Amy Grant
I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
~ Alice Munro
The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.
~ Christopher Titus
I think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
~ Paul Theroux
...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.
~ Roald Dahl