John Green Quotes

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex.

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

I'm very blessed to have a husband who appreciates me. Women feel sexy from feeling attractive and desired. Men feel sexy from having sex. If you can strike a balance where the man is having sex a lot and the woman is feeling desired enough to have sex, then you've figured out the secret to a marriage that's alive.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

Traditionally, sex has been a very private, secretive activity. Herein perhaps lies its powerful force for uniting people in a strong bond. As we make sex less secretive, we may rob it of its power to hold men and women together.

Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life.

In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was her whispering voice I craved, and a human curled up in my arms.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.