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Quotes About Intimacy

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.
~ Eric Hoffer
Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
~ Flora Lewis
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.
~ Frank Zappa
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
~ Frederick Lenz
In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
~ Glen Duncan
Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
~ Gloria Steinem
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
~ Graham Greene
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.
~ Gregory J. P. Godek
...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.
~ Gregory Maguire
I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.
~ Greta Gerwig
Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.
~ Greta Scacchi
Love letters are supposed to be private. [Eva Braun] was very secretive about all that.
~ Gretl Braun
I never meant to push or shove you. Do you know how much I love you?
~ Hal Ketchum
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.
~ Irvine Welsh
Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.
~ Isaiah Washington