Jean Genet Quotes

Our greatest longing is to be intimate.

Love is the life of friendship.

To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

What brings two people together anyway?

You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

Love, we are a small pond.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

My family's really close.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

The most romantic thing a guy has ever done for me is starting a family. That's as romantic as it gets.

Well, there are different levels of love.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.

I always say about my husband, no matter what what we're going through in life, I would rather hang out with him more than any other person.