Quotes About Intimacy

What if we just went home and read books to each other?

I define spiritual direction as the interaction between one person, trained to listen for the movement of God, and another who desires to develop and cultivate an intimate, personal relationship with God.

With multiple tabs open and clicking for hours, you can 'experience' more novel sex partners every ten minutes than your hunter-gatherer ancestors experienced in a lifetime.

Thus the dream house must possess every virtue. How­ ever spacious, it must also be a cottage, a dove-cote, a nest, a chrysalis. Intimacy needs the heart of a nest. Erasmus, his biographer tells us, was long in finding a nook in his fine house in which he could put his little body with safety. He ended by confining himself to one room until he could breathe the parched air that was necessary to him.

Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give you my lips! Take them, for the first time and the last.

Maskemin ard?nda gizlenen bu aÅŸk? yaln?zca sen görebilirsin...

So you were listening at the door?' 'Yes, because I love you.

Criticism and blame are addictions. They are costly addictions, because they are the number-one destroyer of intimacy in close relationships.

I want to make a commitment to you, to create a passionate, creative lifelong relationship with you. Is this what you want?

I clasped my heart's companion to me, and felt myself clasped. I felt myself clasped, and clasped my heart's companion to me.

My hunger fed at least as ravenously upon her imperfections.

I held her feet in my hands.

Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.

Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.

people have managed to marry without arithmetic

The fiery heat of love by now had cooled, For from the time he kissed her hinder parts He didn't give a tinker's curse for tarts; His malady was cured by this endeavor And he defied all paramours whatever.

Verbal courtship continues for months after people first meet, and it becomes the bedrock of human intimacy and love.

I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.