Sensuality Quotes

• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Wall, Giving, Sensual

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blood, Flesh, Bones

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Simplicity, Definitions

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• Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

  Kyra Davis

  Challenges, Needs, Faces

  Kyra Davis (2013). “Just One Night, Part 3: Binding Agreement”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jose Bergamin

  Love, Sensual, Sin

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• Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Passion, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Bradley I. Collins, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1997). “Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

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• Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Strong, Women

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• 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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• I think sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I am.

  Kristanna Loken

  Thinking, Who I Am

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• How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Doe, Invites

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• I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin.

  Rene Marie

  Thinking, Coins, Sides

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

  Milan Kundera

  Sound, Individual, Partners

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• A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Powerful, Expression, Personality

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• I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.

  Shannon Tweed

  Individuality, Sexuality

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• The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sight, Delight, Hearing

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.107, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Twists, Passionate

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• Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

  John H Aughey

  Beautiful, Climbing, Sublime

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• I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Getting Older, Sexuality

  Source: wwd.com

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• Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Body, Pleasure

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• I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

  Lord Byron

  Sensual, Acting, Actors

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• Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

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• Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Blood, Style

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

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• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  Sally Kirkland

  Attitude, Expression, Sensual

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• Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Clothes, Needs

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