Sensual Quotes

• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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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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• Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

  John Friend

  Spiritual, Passionate, Delight

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• Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

  Jose Bergamin

  Love, Sin, Love Is

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

  John Adams

  Education, Philosophy, War

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin

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• You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

  Isadora Duncan

  Inspirational, Life, Simple Life

  "Fictional character: Isadora Duncan". "Isadora", www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Fusion, Way

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• The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

  e. e. cummings

  Vertical, Mysticism

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Real, Lying, Love Is

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• When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Sex, Clothes, Eyelids

  "Claudine and Annie". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1903.

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• She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved.

  Lora Leigh

  Dark, Kissing, Hands

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• Desire and longing are the whips of God.

  Anna Wickham

  Desire, Longing, Whips

  Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”

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• Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

  Sappho

  Bittersweet, Limbs, Irrepressible

  Sappho (1965). “Lyrics in the Original Greek”, Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor books [1965]

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• The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Moments

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• Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Joyous, Masts

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• Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.76, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Summer, Real, Night

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• His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

  Henry James

  Kissing, White, Lightning

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1769, Delphi Classics

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• Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Spiritual, Soul, Music Is

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• To err is human, but it feels divine.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sexy, Clever

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

  Homer

  Wise, Color, Mind

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• Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

  W. H. Auden

  Wish, Desire, Tantrums

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• The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Fire, Erotic, Rage

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• There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Focus, Paper, Letters

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage

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