Human Intercourse Quotes

#1. She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.

Isak Dinesen

#3. In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood

Henry David Thoreau

#4. There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.

Edith Wharton

#5. True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

William James

#6. There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

Edmund Burke

#7. Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

J.M. Coetzee

#8. They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds - a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...

E. M. Forster

#10. She knew several thousand people, in certain directions human intercourse had advanced enormously,

E. M. Forster

#11. I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved nothing except perhaps a rather subtler point.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

James Madison

#13. Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse.

Thomas Ligotti

#14. He kissed and held her like it was the last time, but then again, he always did that, because there had always been that possibility of him losing her.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#15. Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Yoko Ono

#16. Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.

Joanna Baillie

#17. Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

Freya Stark

#18. There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

Anton Yelchin

#19. You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.

Yukio Mishima

#20. The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place

Barbara De Angelis

#21. I wake up at 5 a.m. every day and go to bed early.

Scott Caan

#22. Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Karl Marx

#23. Clever kids in Ravenclaw, evil kids in Slytherin, wannabe heroes in Gryffindor, and everyone who does the actual work in Hufflepuff.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#24. The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

#25. I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

Dan Gelber