I try to pretend his shoulder touching mine isn’t causing…

“It's a strange feeling to like someone so much and yet be terrified to have them in your space, touching you. It isn't that…

— Francesca Zappia

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But…

— Barack Obama

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over…

— Homer

Even when someone introduced the women as someone's daughter or wife, they maintained a distance. With the advent of selfies, people now want to…

— K. J. Yesudas

“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old letters one…

— Elizabeth Kostova

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay

“It’s me,” he says softly. “Stop listening to everything else. Remember the way you feel when I’m kissing you and touching you. Don’t think with your…

— M. Leighton

It's woman's spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can…

— Anonymous

I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

— William Butler Yeats

“I love incorrectly There is a solemnity in hands, the way a palm will curve in accordance to a contour of skin, the way…

— Carl Adamshick

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s…

— Chaz Brenchley

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

— Carl Jung

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the…

— Becca Fitzpatrick