Quotes About Intimacy

cineva care È™tie a iubi cu adev?rat poate experimenta voluptatea oricât de neînsemnat? ar fi atingerea trupului celuilalt. Îi explicasem atunci c?, pentru mine, posesiunea e mult mai neînÈ›eleas? È™i mai complicat? decât se pare. E foarte greu s? ai ceva cu adev?rat, s?-l capeÈ›i sau s?-l cucereÈ™ti. Mai mult ne închipuim c? posed?m decât posed?m.

Stii de ce nu pot sfarsi nici o carte? Pentru ca toate eroinele seamana cu tine, si n-am curajul sa te descriu, sa fac literatura din dragostea asta...

or, aici st? toat? mizeria È™i toat? fascinaÈ›ia dragostei, în descompunerea aceasta lent? a dou? fiinÈ›e strânse împreun?...

Ne uitam amândoi în dragoste, ca doi bolnavi care-È™i alin? durerile.

Caci asta mi se pare lucrul cel mai greu de invatat in contemplarea iubitei: sa stii cum sa-i privesti ochii. Uneori, privirile noastre lovesc atat de nepriceput oglinda ochilor iubitei , incat o tulbura, aburind-o; sau, si mai grav, fac ochii opaci, le dau un luciu de teracota, de smalt colorat. Si sunt, de asemenea, priviri crancene, care smulg retina sau o patrund salbatic, sangerand-o, sau o intuneca..

Am uitat de mult gustul atâtor trupuri pe care le-am cunoscut. Asta se întâmpl? aproape tuturor b?rbaÅ£ilor : s? n-aib? amintiri calde, s? nu mai p?streze nimic din toat? magia aceea a dragostei fizice

El hombre de las sociedades arcaicas tiene tendencia a vivir lo más posible en lo sagrado o en la intimidad de los objetos consagrados.

In the very early morning light I saw Nora and my mother sleeping, finally, on their sides and face to face, holding hands, all four hands entwined like a skein of wool, like a mating ball of garter snakes, so that whatever was inside them would be very well protected.

several of the people we love are people we also fear.

Algunes de les persones que estimem també són persones de qui tenim por.

What's wrong with sleeping with a lawyer? I asked.

ÄŒEŽNJA DogaÄ'a se to u jesenjoj no?i kada pada kestenje po asfaltu i kada se ?uju psi u daljini, i kada se tako neopisivo javlja ?ežnja za nekim tko bi bio dobar, naÅ¡, bliz, intiman, drug, i kome bi mogli da piÅ¡emo pismo. Ispovjedili bismo mu sve Å¡to leži na nama. Pismo bi mu pisali, a njega nema.­ ­

Svi smo mi maske i svi smo mi zakrinkani i svaki ?ovjek ima s vremena na vrijeme potrebu da skine svoju masku na jedan tren, da se raskrinka, da progovori po crti svog intimnog raspoloženja...

As sure as the vine Twines 'round the stump You're my darling sugar lump.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

There is no formula to relationships.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with. ... I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

The slightest human contact was immediate joy.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

The very thought of you and I forget to do the little ordinary things that everyone ought to do…

Qué? Yo hacía girar los dedos de sus pies entre mis dedos, absorto en la tarea. –Mírame. Levanté la vista y vi en sus ojos una mirada muy