Sensual Quotes - Page 2

• To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

  James A. Baldwin

  Respect, Thinking, Effort

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: James Baldwin" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

  Luisa Sigea de Velasco

  Motivational, Fire

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• O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.

  Gaspara Stampa

  Giving, Strange, Wonderful

  Gaspara Stampa, “Rime 28”

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• Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Flames, Melting

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence

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• Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Excess, Pity

  Marquis de Sade (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.102, OUP Oxford

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• What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Curves, Sea, Mountain

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Powerful, Water, Littles

  D. H. Lawrence, Mark Kinkead-Weekes (2002). “The Rainbow”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

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• Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

  Glenn Ligon

  Lovely, Looks, Paint

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• Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

  Vidya Balan

  Laughter, Hands, Dresses

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• Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Passion, First Love, Love Is

  "Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study".

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• You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

  Dick Dale

  Sex, People, Way

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• If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self, Lust, Desire

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Birth, Truth Is

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• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Revenge, Mean

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• Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Musical, Vices, Pleasure

  In 'European Magazine' (1795) p. 82

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• But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Thinking, Degrees

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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

  Erotic, 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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• Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

  Terry Riley

  Spiritual, Sex, Real

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• The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Air, Missing, Arms

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• Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Effort, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.173

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• Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Tired, Acceptance, Knowing

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Justice, Literature, Next

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.277, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Running, Memories, Blood

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Return”

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• It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Body, Needs

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