144 quotes found
“The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense compani...”
“As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.”
“He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer----she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything othe...”
“a city square that's designed on a scale to express national greatness is hostile to the human intimacy necessary for freedom's space [George Packer, "History: Influence on Humanity"].”
“Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.”
“Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.”
“...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.”
“It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.”
“She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; wh...”
“Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.”
“The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deep...”
“Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.”
“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”
“Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.”
“Sex is a sacred act which sadly, over the past few decades, has been demeaned and demoralized until it means almost nothing to most people. Veray few still appreciate the emotional and spiritual co...”
“When you heart and soul are in it, making love is not just special, Maryah-- it's magical.”
“I'm amazed and disheartened at how quickly adolescents lose their innocence nowadays. Everyone is in such a rush to give themselves over to someone physically without truly knowing the person to wh...”
“Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy”
“Intimacy isnt something men talk about.”
“Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate rel...”
