Quotes About Intimacy

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

From conversations with her friends, and from her own observations, Nancy knew that in every marriage (which after all boils down to two human beings living together) the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

we owe love to all people, but only to a proven friend are we to entrust "the secrets of the heart.

There is no real communication with those we love most

Polyamory that's where you're freely confessed that you have more than one lover at a time. And actually I'm less that way than I used to be, but I was trying to make people understand, that at least for some folks, this was a fairly natural state. And instead of skulking around about it that we'd all do better to avoid the deceit and be honest.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage?

A gloomy, harebrained enthusiast, after his death may have a place in the calendar; but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delirious and dismal as himself" (E:II:27o).

Why are you so nervous, aint you been with a cocksucker before?—thats what I am, pal and I aint ashamed of it.

Love can fuck up desire, I'll agree to that," I said, and I believed that. If, on the occasions when someone I had sex with remained after orgasm, and an edge of friendship was being suggested to me—as, say, we might lie, though rarely, talking—if, then, at those times, all desire faded.

Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.

I believe the houses of the future will be...designed to welcome rather than to impress. People...will want homes in which every room is used every day and in which there are no wasted spaces--homes less like furniture stores or warehouses and more like nests.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I learned to love the little things about him, because of all the big things I could not love. No one could. It would be wrong to.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all the actions of our life, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

You are closer to me than my breath,

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight.

Sex. Love. The lack of both was like two deprivations from two deep and timeless wells.

Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.

Thorough knowledge of one another hardly ever exists, but between persons who, besides being intimates, are equals.

The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only implied in person had to be explicitly expressed.

The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor. They cannot deal with genuine intimacy because of a lifelong habit of preserving a secret inner self inside a larger outer personality made up of artificial bits and pieces of behavior borrowed from television or acquired to manipulate teachers. Because they are not who they represent themselves to be, the disguise wears thin in the presence of intimacy; so intimate relationships have to be avoided.