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Quotes About Intimacy

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
~ Antonio Machado
Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure.
~ Billy Squier
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
~ Catullus
For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.
~ Debbie Ford
He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~ Emily Bronte
One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
~ Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?
~ Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
~ Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
~ Petrarch
When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.
~ Jason Evert
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It's a given and that's the secret.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Words make love with one another.
~ Andre Breton
We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.
~ Dan Savage
In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.
~ Izumi Shikibu
To love, you have to admit your lack, and recognise that you need the other, that you miss him or her.
~ Jacques-Alain Miller
I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.
~ Jethro Tull
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
~ Judy Garland
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
~ Moliere
To love is to approach each other center to center.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Oxytocin is the hormone of love. We share it when we have a good conversation, we share it when we make love, and when we hug, and BIRTH is the biggest brightest time of rich oxytocin-sharing.
~ Robin Lim
I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.
~ Ashton Irwin
I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
~ Austin Scarlett
I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
~ David Deida