Quotes about Intimacy
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
— Henry David Thoreau
I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can take the place of true love.
— Jon Jones
Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.
— Marianne Williamson
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
— Isabel Allende
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
— John Ortberg
Love can climb the highest mountain or sink to the lowest depth
— Jon Jones
I do all of these things," Daniel said, leaning into her so that their foreheads touched, "because you're my love, Lucinda. For me, you're all there is.
— Lauren Kate
I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.
— Maya Angelou
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
— Milan Kundera
I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
— NT Wright