Quotes about Intimacy

We live in a culture that desires intimacy without responsibility and pleasure without commitment.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.

Hand in hand they stroke her womb, watching for it to flicker and blossom. p. 3

Because it is not in the nature of love affairs for the lovers to see each other whole and steady.

Even if you choose someone who is not necessarily the love of your life, married life will be better than what you have now, with just your father and yourself. It is not good to sleep alone night after night.

Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128)