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Quotes About Intimacy

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.
~ Edith Wharton
Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
~ Emily Bronte
Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.
~ Erica Jong
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
~ Francis Chan
For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.
~ Frank Pittman
Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself.
~ Frazey Ford
Love is a peculiar thing.
~ Georg Buchner
I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.
~ George Harrison
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.
~ George Santayana
[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.
~ Gloria Steinem
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
~ Henri de Regnier
Friendship is far more delicate than love.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
~ Honore de Balzac
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
~ Ian Fleming
Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
~ Ian Mcewan
He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
~ James Franco
The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart
~ James Taylor
Beware how you give your heart.
~ Jane Austen
I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.
~ Jane Kenyon
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn