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50 Quotes About Passion And Intimacy That Will Make You Crave Your Lover's Touch

A passionate, intimate connection between two lovers is one of the deepest connections you can have. The act of sex is called 'making love,' because your love becomes tangible, expressed through both body and soul.
Marisa Donnelly
July 10, 2016
“They step into each other and it’s hard to tell where one begins and one ends: hands in hair and warmth on warmth.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Making Love
“It is the kind of love that gives me goosebumps.”
— Brenna Twohy, Anxiety: A Ghost Story
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Lust, Passion, Dating
“I want to be your tongue most days.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, Chronic Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Tagged: Love, Lust, Dating, Relationships, Spoken Word
“Remember how we unhinged? Remember all the names our bodies called each other? Remember how afterwards, the steam rose from us, like a pair of smiling ghosts?”
— Cristin O'Keefe, December
Tagged: Love, Sex, Relationships, Falling In Love, Intimacy
“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
Tagged: Sex, Music, prayer
“Sex is an emotion in motion.”
— Mae West, Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It
Tagged: Sex, emotions
“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
“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
“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
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or–such is the pleasure they experience–they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Intimacy, Sex, Love, Relationships
“I taste her and realize I have been starving.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: Love, Lust, Desire, Kissing, Passion, Sex
“The wanting comes in waves. ”
— The Decemberists, the Decemberists- the wanting comes in waves repaid - (8 of 17)
Tagged: Want, Desire, Lust, Passion, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“I remember that feeling of skin. It's
strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers
still tingle with it.”
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen
Tagged: Love, Touch, Sex
“There wasn't an inch of her that he didn't taste -- from the base of her throat to the curve of her waist to the backs of her knees to her candy apple-red toenails. And when he finally tasted the already damp petals of her womanhood, she tangled her fingers in his hair and arched her hips as the tremors of ecstasy shook her body. He felt each spasm as acutely as if she were connected to him.”
— Bonnie Pega, THEN COMES MARRIAGE (Loveswept)
Tagged: Sex, Love, Kissing
“Then as he began to move, in the sudden helpless orgasm, there awoke in her new strange thrills rippling inside her. Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite and melting her all molten inside. It was like bells rippling up and up to a culmination. She lay unconscious of the wild little cries she uttered at the last.”
— D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics)
Tagged: Sex, Love
“I took a breath and watched as he leaned down over my exposed, lumpy belly. Very lightly, he kissed it. He kissed the spot beneath my ribs and all the way down to my navel. He kissed across my lower stomach, that wretched expanse where the stretch marks raked across my skin, then up and down my sides. Harry kissed every inch of my horrible flesh with a tenderness so great and loving, and all the while, my eyes stayed clenched tight. 'I am loved,' a voice inside me declared.”
— Kelsey Miller, Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
Tagged: Sex, Kissing, Dating, Love
“The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I'm alive.”
— Richard Siken, Snow And Dirty Rain
Tagged: Passion, Intimacy, Sex, Love
“Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.”
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Tagged: Intimacy, Intimate
“I want to touch a soul rather than just someone's skin.”
— Marisa Donnelly, You Can't Tell Me Who To Be When It Comes To Love
Tagged: Intimacy, Sex, Love
“My lips
lingering on your collarbone.
I trace the line of my chin
imagining what our kiss
feels like on your mouth
so delicate, so perfect”
— Marisa Donnelly, If I Could Feel Your Touch Again
Tagged: Intimacy, Intimate, Sex, Love
“I would put my lips to your canvas, taste where the sweat dripped from the paintbrush, and the thick, metallic earthiness of your skin.

I would run my tongue over the ridges of your beautifully crafted surface, kiss where the colors meet the edge of the frame. Claim it all as mine.”
— Marisa Donnelly, If You Could Be Art
Tagged: Love, Sex, Intimacy, Art, Poetry, poem, Favorites
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
— Charlie Chaplin, via Pinterest
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Naked, Being Naked
“To be intimate is to be in tune. Every corner of your body is an earthquake. That's how you make love to a woman.”
— Unknown, Relatably
Tagged: Love, Making Love, Intimacy
“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ”
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage And Morals
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Passion, Making Love
“Intimacy is not purely physical; it's the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.”
— Unknown, via Pinterest
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Connection
“Intimacy is more than just being with someone; it is tuning into them and allowing the energetic currents that flow through them to connect with our own, like electricity. ”
— Mia Rose, via Facebook
Tagged: Intimacy, Real Intimacy
“I always thought seeing a person’s soul was a metaphor, but I have seen all the way in, to what we are made of.
And it is so beautiful.
Your soul encircled mine
And mine yours… I will never forget the feeling.”
— Just Jack (as this is a matter of the heart), via Tumblr
Tagged: Intimacy, Connection, Passion