#Intimacy Quotes

“Speak low, if you speak love.”

“Were kisses all the joys in bed,One woman would another wed.”

“I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.”

“They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.”

“To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”

“In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.”

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more”

“My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.”

“She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”

“You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.”

“I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.”

“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”

“I know, although when looks meetI tremble to the bone,The more I leave the door unlatchedThe sooner love is gone.”

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.”

“Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.”

“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”

“Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.”

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.”

“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.”

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.”

“for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

“Intimacy is a difficult art.”

“Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.”

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.”

“I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover”

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

“Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.”

“Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.”

“Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over”

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

“You know it's love when you want to keep holding hands even after you're sweaty.”

“I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things”

“I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.”

“A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.”

“You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.”

“The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.”

“Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.”

“I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.”

“Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!”

“Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.”

“You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.”

“Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.”

“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

“But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms”