Erotic Quotes

• The most erotic zone is the imagination.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Imagination, Zone

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• Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?

  Roland Barthes

  Glimpse, Body, Clothings

  1973 Le Plaisir du texte.

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• What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Passion, Eye

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.

  Wynn Bullock

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Photography

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• I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Love, Sexy, Thinking

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• Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

  Terry Pratchett

  Differences, Kinky, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Eric: A Novel of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious.

  Esther Perel

  Play, Imagination, Curiosity

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• 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

  Sexy, Lying, Eye

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.134, Knopf

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• Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Sexy, Lying

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is friendship with erotic moments.

  Antonio Gala

  Love Is, Lost Friendship, Moments

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• Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

  Mary Rakow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint

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• Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

  Susie Bright

  Hypocrite, Burning, Condemnation

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• The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?

  Valerie Steele

  Shoes, Icons, Stilettos

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• So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.

  Veronica Franco

  Sweet, Sex, Men

  Veronica Franco (2007). “Poems and Selected Letters”, p.69, University of Chicago Press

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• No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Filth, Significant

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• I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sexy, Hair, Voice

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.219, Macmillan

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• I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

  Pablo Neruda

  Twilight, Heart, Hunting

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Flames

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• I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

  Donna Summer

  Sensual, Levels, Fantasy

  "Donna Summer Revealed Her #1 Sex Fantasy & U Won’t Believe What She Said!". Penthouse interview, www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com. September 13, 2015.

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• A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

  Ovid

  White, Rose, Rubies

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• Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Joy, Consciousness

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Enduring Love”, p.102, Random House

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• The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

  Audre Lorde

  Self, Feelings, Chaos

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Sexy, Kissing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.671, Hamilton Books

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• Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
  shaking ancient oaks.

  Sappho

  Sexy, Wind, Soul

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• I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Hands, Body

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