“Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.” — Kristie LeVangie Copy Share Image
“I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals. — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Breasts are sexually stimulating, but so are legs, lips and the nape of the neck, to name a few focuses of visual… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change… — Gene Siskel Copy Share Image
“Fuck me,” I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madness.” — Emme Rollins Copy Share Image
Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear.… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Well, sex is life. You know, if you don't do it anymore, you can take a spoon and go into the woods… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
“How many rooms are there in the chambers of your heart? How many rooms full of memories can you describe like the… — Valentine Bonnaire Copy Share Image
“One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Decadence is an elusive concept, resistant to concise definition. In the broadest sense one might explain it as a delight in or… — David J. Bell Copy Share Image
“[Eroticism is] the poetry of the body, the testimony of the senses. Like a poem, it is not linear, it meanders and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine.… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“...[A]s much as she burned to come, she wanted Olive to know without a doubt that this—that they—were about more than sex.… — Meghan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
“Over the course of my many encounters with V’lane, I would attempt repeatedly to describe him in my journal. I would use… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image