Quotes about Intimacy
Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?
— Thomas Watson
each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.
— Oprah Winfrey
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
— Oscar Wilde
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
— Oscar Wilde
you will always love, and you will always be loved
— Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
— Oscar Wilde
She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.
— DH Lawrence
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
— DH Lawrence
Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
— DH Lawrence
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
— DH Lawrence
It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
— DH Lawrence
How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
— DH Lawrence