Quotes About Intimacy

It's the nicest thing when you're constantly surprised by your partner.

In fact, most married couples who live together would be quite happy to only see their partner twice a year, and to just worry about the color of their seats!

When you do any relationship scene, you do fall in love with your acting partner a bit.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

It is easy to find partners, not love.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

I think when you're looking for a lifetime partnership, intimacy is obviously a part of that.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

A real relationship's based on trust and understanding, the sharing of little things. Moments of happiness and laughter. Realising you've both just had the same thought, or were about to say the same thing.

The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western. COWBOY: "Gimme a shot of red-eye." SUBTITLE: "Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait." No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years.

One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

The night itself wanted to touch her

genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest. The separate space between us becomes sacred space.

While I was disciplined in spiritual practices, the people closest to me (starting with my wife, Geri) did not experience me as more loving with each passing year.

Your being with God (or lack of being with God) will trump, eventually, your doing for God every time. We cannot give what we do not possess. We cannot help but give what we do possess.

He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, "Alright. You're comfortable." It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

Sie war unruhig, und doch schienen wir - ohne mehr voneinander zu wissen als unsere Namen - über Nacht vertrauter miteinander geworden zu sein.

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

Her sense of humor went south about a minute after I tied her up.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

From 1781, by which time Goethe had been in Weimer for six years, he confided to Charlotte that he no longer felt able to address her as "Sie," and must use the more intimate "du." This brought about a sea change. As one critic put it, Goethe's letters now became "prose poems of happy love with few parallels in any literature.