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Quotes About Intimacy

Daca ti-as incredinta viata mea, ai scapa-o pe jos. Nu-i asa?
~ Michael Ondaatje
Acaso no perdonamos todo a un amante? Perdonamos el egoísmo, el deseo, el engaño, siempre y cuando seamos la causa de ello.
~ Michael Ondaatje
She likes to lay her face against the upper reaches of his arm, that dark brown river, and to wake submerged within it, against the pulse of an unseen vein in his flesh beside her. The vein she would have to locate and insert a saline solution into if he were dying.
~ Michael Ondaatje
iubirea e atat de mica incat poate sa se strecoare prin ochiul unui ac.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.
~ Michael Pollan
Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more beautiful forms that human generosity takes; that much I sort of knew. But the very best cooking, I discovered, is also a form of intimacy.
~ Michael Pollan
As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.
~ Vincent McNabb
What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.
~ Chip Esten
When you see someone every single day, at 5:30 A.M. in the morning, you have to break down all barriers, you become very close.
~ Vick Hope
Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!'
~ Mark Billingham
Physical intimacy is emotionally binding. But there are lots of different sins.
~ Hannah Brown
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.
~ James Salter
I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.
~ Rhea Seehorn
If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
~ Rob Corddry
That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you don't have to be on the matchmaking sites.
~ Aviva
It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.
~ Arca
My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.
~ Guy Fieri
It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.
~ Mikaela Hoover
Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.
~ Geoff Dyer
I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!
~ Colin Farrell
I would never even think about skating with somebody else. The whole reason I wanted to come back to skating was to be close to Tessa again, and to share those moments.
~ Scott Moir
Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.
~ T. J. Miller