intimacy quotes

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.