Quotes About Intimacy

Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.