Quotes About Intimacy

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Rush is the death of marriage.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.