Emily & Steve Photography

33 Quotes That Highlight Intimacy Is The Key To Good Sex

Lust over the most tantalizing lines in literature. 
Heidi Priebe
June 20, 2016
“Close your eyes and picture the sun. That's what it felt like to love her: warmth. ”
— Atticus, Warmth
Tagged: Poetry, Love
“So in my defense, when he touched me the lights of my body came on. In my defense, the windows were thrown open. In my defense... spring.”
— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Not Doing Something Wrong Isn’t the Same as Doing Something Right
Tagged: Poetry, Love, Spring, Sex, Relationships, Intimacy, Passion, Dating, Spilled Ink
“The more I live the more I think two people together is a miracle.”
— Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Growing Pains, Sad, Commitment, Dating, Poetry
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Sex, emotions
“Sex pretty much cures everything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Amazing sex stays with you. It soaks into your skin. It floats through your dreams and has you silently smoldering with delicious remembrances for hours after. It has you craving it days later.”
— Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Tagged: Sex, Dating, hookups
“Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.”
— Swami X
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.”
— Woody Allen
Tagged: Sex, Love, hookups
“People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!”
— C. Joybell C., All Things Dance Like Dragonflies
Tagged: Sex, Love, Lust
“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film
Tagged: Sex, Nature, hookups
“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
— Woody Allen
Tagged: Sex, Fun, hookups
“And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
Tagged: Sex, Love, hookups
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
— Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
Tagged: Sex, History
“Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.”
— Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.”
— Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food”
— Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
Tagged: Sex, Lust
“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Poetry, Kissing, Love, Lust, Destruction, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“His body is
a mosque,
my God,
his strong shoulders,
his soft chest,
his handsome hands,
I hear the call of prayer
every time I lay
my head
close to his heart.”
— Royla Asghar, The Prayer I Pray
Tagged: Love, Devotion, Poetry, romance, Dating
“He loves her like he can never grab enough of her between his fingers.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire
“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Touch, Love, Lust, Desire, Sex
“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Love, Fantasy, Falling In Love, Sex, Relationships
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
Tagged: Sex, Relationships, Love, Miracle
“Sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel(P.S.)
Tagged: Sex, sexuality, Lust, Desire, Passion
“When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Tagged: Sex, Lust, Desire, Passion, Women, sexuality
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
— Rumi, Rumi on Love
Tagged: Sex, Love, Intimacy, Sleep
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
— Rumi, Rumi on Love
Tagged: Love, Sex, God
“I write about love because it’s the most important thing in the world. I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.”
— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
Tagged: Sex, Love, Lust
“Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Sex, Love, Kissing
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Intimacy, Love
“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”
— Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (Outlander)
Tagged: Sex, Intimacy, Bodies, Love