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Quotes About Intimacy

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. This seems so clearly the case with grief, but it can be so only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. One may want to, or manage to for a while, but despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel.
~ Judith Butler
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.
~ Judith Butler
I love you, my blue-eyed lynx," he whispered huskily.
~ Judith E. French
Trust is difficult to sustain when we build a rich inner world of drama that we do not share with those around us.
~ Judith E. Glaser
He knew me so well. He was the only one who could make me feel as if the world were right again, and I was loved and cherished and known and he would never, ever leave...even at a distance, he could read me. He could find that vulnerable spot and say the right words, do the right things, that brought me back time after time.
~ Judith Fertig
Want houden van is gauwer gezegd dan langer gedaan maar soms komt het in het donker op gang en dan is er verder geen houden meer aan.
~ Judith Herzberg
A man in cahoots with a woman's sexual instinct was the devil himself, for he had the united power over her—himself and her own longing—greater than a mere man
~ Judith Ivory
She could sense the length of him against her buttocks as well as a kind of heaviness, a substantive presence. He was changing right there under her, growing longer and thicker, information she acquired through the unlikely source of her bum, while he kissed her mouth. Heavens, what a sensation.
~ Judith Ivory
Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: "I'm so happy with you, la, la...
~ Judith Ivory, The Proposition
Physical compatibility is a question of skin first and foremost. If the contact of one skin on another isn't immediately pleasing nothing else can possibly matter, but if it is, all other things may follow.
~ Judith Krantz
It is a general rule to err on the side of formality rather than of intimacy.
~ Judith Martin
A good definition of love," he said good-humoredly. "If we talk to each other we can find each other.
~ Judith Michael
Your soul mate can become your cell mate" if both of you are not dedicated to mutual growth and authenticity. It's
~ Judith Orloff
A healthy connection is when partners are mutually committed to the relationship and both want to open their hearts to each other. In contrast, attachment is when we cling to someone with a death grip, hoping that person will change. Attachments are dangerous because they can keep us linked to unavailable people or toxic relationships. If you are looking for intimacy, search out people who are excited to be with you.
~ Judith Orloff
If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.
~ Judith Plaskow
When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.
~ Judith Plaskow
I don't cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can't stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes that knew everything I'd ever thought or felt or been.
~ Judith Tarr
We're bound. One soul, the humans say. They don't know the half of it. Wherever you go, I must go; whatever you do, I must be with you. If you hurt, I hurt; your joy is my joy. We can never be free again.
~ Judith Tarr
I wanted you to see my heart.
~ Judith Thurman
Lust is what makes you keep wanting to do it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.
~ Judith Viorst
It's only when you love him that you hate him.
~ Judith Viorst
Could it really happen like this?" he asked. "That a girl like you can make me feel..." "Make you feel what?" "Make me feel," he said.
~ Judy Blundell
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
~ Judy Garland
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
~ Judy Garland