“It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
“Wanting too much sex and being obsessed with it is usually a sign of distress (or immaturity), not necessarily of passion. Passion… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“There’s this pin-up ideology of sensuality that makes it seems like having access to sensuality is the norm, but in today’s culture,… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I would not crave sensuality this bad if there’s was no divine Substance in it. I mean, what value is there in… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more… — John Keats Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The depressing majority of comics seem to be about violence of one sort or another, [...] And I just don’t enjoy violence.… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
“Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“She started to reach for the door and was shocked to feel his fingers clamp down around her wrist. Shocked, not because… — Lara Adrian Copy Share Image
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals, water to sound, fire… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Clothes should never be decoration…whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more… — Haider Ackermann Copy Share Image
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“A sensual woman is the best escape and emotional cure for a man who's soul is distressed. If women could learn that,… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Turn around.” Only two words, but they deliver such a sensual threat. I do as you ask without question. You are right… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
“Ladies, let me tell you a secret: traditional men care more about how feminine you look and carry yourself. On the other… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“How could he have gone so long without this? Without the simple pleasure of another person’s touch on his body? It wasn’t… — Darien Cox Copy Share Image
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image