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Quotes About Intimacy

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
~ Donald Barthelme
The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
~ Quentin Crisp
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
~ Oscar Wilde
The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.
~ Guy Ritchie
Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.
~ Hart Crane
My love runs deeper than the wounds.
~ Henry Rollins
Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.
~ James Ellroy
The main thing I learned doing love scenes with a woman was, if it's there, it's there.
~ Laura Prepon
But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you're right there in love again.
~ Taylor Swift
Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.
~ William Shakespeare
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.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.
~ Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.
~ Jill Scott
I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.
~ Yunho
I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.
~ Rupert Grint
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
~ Anne Michaels
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, - these are love's pretty ingredients for a kiss.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
~ Djuna Barnes
There's always a threat surrounding the things you love
~ Don McCullin
There is no escape if love is not there
~ Elizabeth George Speare
I only sleep with people I love, which is why I have insomnia.
~ Emilie Autumn
The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.
~ Esther Perel
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.
~ C. S. Lewis
Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
~ George Washington Carver