Intimacy Quote by Stendhal

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no…

— Hermann Hesse

“What drives us to despair is not the immensity of our unsatisfied desires, but the moment when our fledgling passion discovers its own emptiness.…

— Raoul Vaneigem

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love in the modern sense does not exist in antiquity except outside of official society,” notes Engels: at the very point where antiquity broke…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

— William Shakespeare

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love…

— Jean de la Bruyere

In life, there are no perfect affections.

— James Merrill

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

— Toni Morrison

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

— May Sarton

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez