120 Intimacy Quotes for Him and Her

Got Valentine’s Day, a birthday, an anniversary, or something else to celebrate with your significant other around the corner?

Nothing trumps some beautiful couple intimacy quotes, quotes for intimacy, and quotes about intimacy and passion.

There are some intimacy quotes for him and some intimacy quotes for her, but all in all, these can be used to express how you feel. Check out these deep intimacy quotes for couples.

120 intimacy quotes to bring couples closer

Here are some quotes that will help you build intimacy between you and your partner.

20 emotional intimacy quotes

Looking to build emotional intimacy between you and your partner? You can try saying or sending these emotional intimacy quotes to them. These quotes will help you build a stronger and better connection. Check out these intimate love quotes for him or her.

1. “If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is if you’re with your soulmate.”  – Cate Blanchett
2. “Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”  – Amy Bloom
3. “If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.”  – Henri Nouwen
4. “Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”  – Joyce Brothers
5. “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” – Scott Fitzgerald
6. “Love is a serious mental illness.” – Plato
7. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
8. “Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.” – Robert Sternberg
9. “Intimacy doesn’t have all that much to do with the back seats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.” – Gabrielle Zevin
10. “I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.”  – Laren Oliver
11. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” – Jane Austen
12. “Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.” – Bertrand Russell
13. “Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.” – Ann Landers
14. “Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.” – Rollo May
15. “The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.” – Dean Ornish
16. “The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.” – Aberjhani
17. “Love is beyond sex and physical touch. Love is kind words, a reassuring smile, one that is not jealous and keeps a record of wrongdoings. Love is knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will always be there for that person and they will always be there for you.”
18. “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” – John Joseph Powell
19. “I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can’t believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can’t imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven’t been.” – Raymond Carver
20. “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.” – Madeline Miller

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20 physical intimacy quotes

Physical intimacy is an important part of any relationship. Here are 20 physical intimacy quotes that will help you bring back spark into your relationship. Check out these intimacy messages for him or her. 

1. “He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.” – Madeline Miller, Circe
2. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
3. “I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.” – Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
4. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alain de Botton
5. “His eyes are open, watching my flushed face, my ragged breathing. I try to stop myself from making embarrassing noises. It’s more intimate than the way he’s touching me, to be looked at like that. I hate that he knows what he’s doing and I don’t. I hate being vulnerable. I hate that I throw my head back, baring my throat. I hate the way I cling to him, the nails of one hand digging into his back, my thoughts splintering, and the single last thing in my head: that I like him better than I’ve ever liked anyone and that of all the things he’s ever done to me, making me like him so much is by far the worst.” – Holly Black, The Wicked King
6. “The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It’s Intimacy” – Richard Bach
7. “I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive.” – Fiona Thrust, Naked and Sexual
8. “This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it.” – Iain Thomas
9. “The sweet juices of your mouth are like castles bathed in honey. I’ve never had it done so gently before. you have put a circle of castles around my penis and you swirl them like sunlight on the wings of birds.” – Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
10. “The best sex takes place in the mind first” – Jenna Jameson
11. “A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you’ll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you’ll know true intimacy.” – M.J. Abraham
12. “To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.” – Fiona Thrust
13. “Just because lips have met doesn’t mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn’t mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.” – Joshua Harris
14. “It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion.” – Fiona Thrust
15. “Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.” – Anatole Broyard
16. “I love being aroused. I relish that delicious feeling of freedom, the delirium of being naked, and my flesh being born again. It’s like I’m being made new.” – Fiona Thrust
17. “When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.” – Ian McEwan
18. “His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.” – N.R. Walker
19. “Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.” – Michel Faber
20. “Intimacy is not purely physical. It’s the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul.” – Reshall Varsos

20 intimacy quotes for him

The way men and women react to various things can be different, because of the way our minds are wired. If you wish to get closer to your male partner, here are 20 intimacy quotes for him that you can read to him, or send them to him as texts. Check out these intimate quotes for him.

Watch this video to know more about messages that can make your man fall in love with you even more.

1. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” – Jane Austen
2. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alain de Botton
3. “That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other’s eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.” – Veronica Roth, Allegiant
4. “his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively — I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.” – Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
5. “See, don’t just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It’s how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.” – Suzan Battah
6. “What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people’s blood. No, it was that she might push him away.” – John Ajvide Lindqvist
7. “You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” – Junot Díaz
8. “When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self–the deepest fears, the hidden desires–a powerful intimacy is born.” – Sarah Pekkanen
9. “I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.” – Hisham Matar
10. “All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.” – Criss Jami
11. “Playfulness and Passion… Friendship and Intimacy… I want a relationship with a good flirt to roast ratio.” – Steve Maraboli
12. “If your partner doesn’t know how to listen to their own sensuality, they’ll often project their own internal struggles on you because they are not attuned to their own essence.” – Lebo Grand
13. “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show youserlf to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their responde is “You’re safe with me” – that’s intimacy.” – Taylor Jenkins Reid
14. “There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.” – Brad Meltzer
15. “True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
16. “The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It’s Intimacy” – Richard Bach
17. “People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.” – Taylor Jenkins Reid
18. “The energy that it takes to make real soul-satiating love takes a lot of sensual investment in one’s self.” – Lebo Grand
19. “Don’t spare the rod and starve your wife. Be like Moses, point it at the red sea and split it into two. There’s no better joy than finding pure love in the love of your life. Make love to create love.” – Emmanuel Apetsi
20. “The relationship we have with our desires/sensuality plays a huge and significant role in the way we want to feel in an intimate relationship with a lover.” – Lebo Grand

20 intimacy quotes for her

If you wish to read, or send intimacy quotes to your lady love, here are intimacy quotes for her that you can choose from. Check out these intimate quotes for her.

1. “Part of what made this so hard was that he didn’t have any of the more convenient complaints people cited to end a marriage; adultery, neglect, constant arguing. They just lacked a fundamental intimacy that kept someone from feeling alone in the world.” – Tracey Lange
2. “The relationship we have with our desires/sensuality plays a huge and significant role in the way we want to feel in an intimate relationship with a lover.” – Lebo Grand
3. “The more you evolve your relationship with your desires, the more you’ll begin to understand that sex is more valuable when it’s an act of worship rather than just a necessary means to reaching multiple orgasms.” – Lebo Grand
4. “I love being touched. I don’t like the expectations that come with it.” – Linsey Miller
5. “There is intimacy during sex only if there was intimacy before it.” – Marty Rubin
6. “Ladies, all the possibilities of the love or lover you’re looking for lie in your sensuality.” – Lebo Grand
7. “To be wrapped up asleep in each other’s arms like two coiled snakes, that is peace. That is love.” – Marty Rubin
8. “Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone – and finding that that’s ok with them.” – Alin De Bottom
9. “When people know you too well, they eventually see your damage, your weirdness, carelessness, and mean streak. They see how ordinary you are after all, that whatever it was that distinguished you, in the beginning, is the least of who you actually are. This will turn out to be the greatest gift we can offer another person: letting them see, every so often, beneath all the trappings and pretense to the truth of us.” – Anne Lamott
10. “The wisdom of sensuality needs no guidance, only permission from you.” – Lebo Grand
11. “I decided to become a women’s sensuality coach because in every relationship I got into, I yearned for a sensual ‘touch’ like a baby yearns for his mother’s milk. But there was very little to none.” – Lebo Grand
12. “Without the sensuality of the heart and soul, there is no sensuality at all, just smoke and mirrors.” – Lebo Grand
13. “May you attract someone who is in touch with their sensuality so you don’t have to spend a lifetime translating your soul.” – Lebo Grand
14. “A sensual woman ignites depths in you that lay dormant.” – Lebo Grand
15. “Your ability to give what is real and effective is directly proportional to your ability to receive what is real and meaningful to you.” – Betty Martin
16. “Sex isn’t hard, but intimacy is terrifying.” – Tatiana Maslany
17. “So powerful will be our intimacy, that words, mere words, would do it great injustice.”- A.D. Aliwat
18. “Women should be satisfied not scrutinized.” – Habeeb Akande
19. “He senses a certain receptivity in her expression, like she’s gathering information about his feelings, something they have learned to do to each other over a long time, like speaking a private language.” – Sally Rooney
20. “We may sleep together, but my dreams are my own.”- Alicia Cook

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20 lack of intimacy quotes

If you and your partner are lacking intimacy and you want to spice things up between you two, here are 20 lack of intimacy quotes that you can send to heat things up.

1. “I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.” – Anais Nin to Henry Mille 
2. “We lie in each other’s arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.” – Marge Piercy
3. “There’s this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It’s the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.” – Gretchen Kemp
4. “In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.” – Shannon L. Alder
5. “Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped. Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future.” – Robyn Donald
6. “The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.” – unknown
7. “Their bodies had met in perfumes, in sweat, frantic to get under that thin film with a tongue or a tooth, as if they each could grip character there and during love pull it right off the body of the other.”
8. “I was hers. She was mine. My body was her chariot, and she drove it into the sun. Her body was my river, and I became the sea.”
9. “I love you so much more now than twenty minutes ago that there cannot be comparison. I love you so much more now then when you opened your hovel door, there cannot be comparison. There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection.” 
10. “‘I love the smell of you,’ he said. ‘I love your red hair. I love your mouth, and the way you kiss me. I love your smile. I love your teats.’ He kissed them, one and then the other. ‘I love your skinny legs, and what’s between them.’ He knelt to kiss her there, lightly on her mound at first, but Ygritte moved her legs apart a little, and he saw the pink inside and kissed that as well, and tasted her.” 
11. ‘I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can’t see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine’. – Jack Llawayllynn, Indulgence
12. ‘You’re like a madness inside me, a fever I can’t cure’.
13. ‘It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways to express their sacred hunger to each other in animal passion’. – Fiona Thrust
14. ‘I am the flower in the garden at the center of your desire’. – Julie Cox
15. ‘The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have’. – Iain Thomas
16. ‘We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives. I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open’. – Vladimir Nabokov
17. ‘Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words’. – Margaret Mitchell
18. ‘For the first time, I understood something I’d always denied: nothing about love or sex is rational. In these domains, our passions rule, leaving us with heartbreak or euphoria, but always undeniably alive’. – Lou Kelley
19. ‘I think of you, therefore I exist’.  – Ljupka Cvetanova
20. ‘Passion lingers on a state of bliss, Love loves you more when you kiss’.  – Munia Khan

20 intimate couple quotes 

1. “Sex can be wonderful, but sometimes you have to take a step back from it to think if you really love that person or if it is just lust.”
2.  “Honesty is the highest form of intimacy.”
3. “Intimacy with your partner deepens the closeness you share with your love interest and strengthens your connection with yourself.”
4. “Your partner in the intimate relationship is your mirror that reflects back to you the undiscovered elements of who you are.”
5. “Embrace intimacy and infuse action in your love life.”
6. ‘He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began’. – Leo Tolstoy
7. ‘My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire’. – Seema Gupta
8. ‘Our skins reach outward, like magnets, long deprived of their opposite charge’. – Gayle Forman
9. ‘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
10. ‘I want to paint a love poem, all over the sheets and you’. – Trudi Paraha
11. ‘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
12. ‘And we were kissing like drowning people breathe – like suddenly we’d discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment’. – Morgan Matson
13. ‘I run my finger along her neck, her jaw line, and then cup her chin in my hand. And stop. We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together’. – Gayle Forman
14. ‘I taste her and realize I have been starving’. – Jodi Picoult
15. ‘They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered’. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. ‘Sex is an emotion in motion’. – Mae West
17. ‘Those mornings when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word’. – David Levithan
18. ‘I want to touch a soul rather than just someone’s skin’ – Marisa Donnelly
19. ‘The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive’. – Richard Siken
20. “There’s a place in your heart where nobody’s been. Take me there.” — Rascal Flatts

Conclusion

Implement these marriage intimacy quotes to stimulate more intimacy in your relationship. You both will find a new spark in your relationship, which will help you keep the romance alive.

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