Quotes about Intimacy
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
— Samuel Beckett
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
— Mortimer Adler
Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.
— Henri Nouwen
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.
— Mother Teresa
Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
— John Piper
Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.
— Karen Kingsbury
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Love follows knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
— Victor Hugo
One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
— Leo Buscaglia
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
— Leo Buscaglia
To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.
— Max Lucado