Quotes about Intimacy
Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by manly grace.
— John Milton
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.
— John Newton
God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.
— John Ortberg
C. S. Lewis wrote that in prayer we must "lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
— John Ortberg
hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers.
— John Ortberg
Watch a marriage that was begun with hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers. See a middle-aged man who spends
— John Ortberg
That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods…
— Edith Wharton
What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
— Alain de Botton
A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.
— Tony Evans
When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
— Khalil Gibran
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
— Joseph Addison
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
— Virginia Woolf