Quotes About Intimacy

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.

I love you because you're the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Love is a state of union. When you can receive love, you can know union.

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

Romance is all about making a story out of our love.

I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

Love follows knowledge.

I'm in love with my animal friends.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.