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Quotes About Intimacy

When we love we can let our hearts speak.
~ bell hooks
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship....
~ bell hooks
Individuals who choose to love can and do alter our lives in ways that honor the primacy of a love ethic. We do this by choosing to work with individuals we admire and respect; by committing to give our all to relationships; by embracing a global vision wherein we see our lives and our fate as intimately connected to those of everyone else on the planet.
~ bell hooks
Without knowing one another, we can never experience intimacy.
~ bell hooks
Para amar verdadeiramente devemos aprender a misturar vários ingredientes: carinho, afeição, reconhecimento, respeito, compromisso e confiança, assim como
~ bell hooks
I am afraid that they will grow up looking for intimacy without risk, for pleasure without significant emotional investment. They will be so fearful of the pain of disappointment that they will forgo the possibilities of love and joy." Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
~ bell hooks
How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, just as a cathartic exercise? What important piece of her brain was missing that deprived her of such, well, deeply necessary acts of physical editing ?
~ Ben Marcus
It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the kind of pre-verbal intimacy that should flow with thunderous force between the bodies of people so bonded. We should have been able to bypass a mere inability to exchange language.
~ Ben Marcus
I enjoyed the goodwill of my colleagues because most of us had worked together intimately under tremendous pressures for more than a quarter century. Working isolated, under rules of tight security, instilled a camaraderie probably unique in the American workplace. I
~ Ben R. Rich
I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.
~ Benedict Freedman
Amavo moltissimo la mia Ceinwyn. Anche ora, dopo anni, sorrido quando la penso; a volte, di notte, mi sveglio con le lacrime agli occhi e so di averle versate per lei. Il nostro amore era nato in una vampata di passione e i saggi dicono che simili passioni si spengono sempre, ma la nostra non se era spenta: si era mutata in un amore intenso e duraturo.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Abel Becket had never seen as much of his wife's breasts as Mrs. Loring saw fit to present to the world.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Entendo que é possível olhar nos olhos de alguém e de súbito saber que a vida será impossível sem eles. Saber que a voz da pessoa pode fazer seu coração falhar, e que a companhia dessa pessoa é tudo que sua felicidade pode desejar, e que a ausência dela deixará sua alma solitária, desolada e perdida.
~ Bernard Cornwell
But that's what happened, Freeman, who had often been in love, told himself. Until you were lovers you were strangers.
~ Bernard Malamud
Since our nights together on that trip, I had longed every night to feel her next to me, to curl up against her, my stomach against her behind and my chest against her back, to rest my hand on her breasts, to reach out for her when I woke up in the night, find her, push my leg over her legs, and press my face against her shoulder.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Când ne deschidem tu mie ÅŸi eu Å£ie, când ne scufund?m tu în mine ÅŸi eu în tine, când ne pierdem tu în mine ÅŸi eu în tine, Abia atunci eu sunt eu ÅŸi tu eÅŸti tu.
~ Bernhard Schlink
I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled fresh, freshly washed or of fresh laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Cuando nos abrimos, tú a mí y yo a ti, cuando nos sumergimos, tú en mí y yo en ti, cuando nos olvidamos, tú en mí y yo en ti. Sólo entonces, yo soy yo y tú eres tú.
~ Bernhard Schlink
When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then
~ Bernhard Schlink
Pero, en el amor, el otro nunca está disponible.
~ Bernhard Schlink
a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breasts and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body.
~ Bernhard Schlink
I had the feeling she could only be what she was to me at an actual distance.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Wenn wir uns öffnen du dich mir und ich dir mich, wenn wir versinken in mich du und ich in dich, wenn wir vergehen du in mir und dir in ich. Dann bin ich ich und bist du du.
~ Bernhard Schlink
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.
~ Bertrand Russell