Quotes About Intimacy

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

In marriage, you must have trust and love

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.