“I suggested that my patron goddess should take sensual pleasure, though I didn't put it quite in those terms.” — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to… — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of… — Serena Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
“It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of… — Marquis de Sade 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
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Sandrine opened her eyes to the soft gray light of early dawn. Recollections of sensual pleasure seemed to caress her body, bringing… — Paul A. Myers Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either… — Anonymous 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
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since,… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness.… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
“I could believe this all the more readily (and also that the caresses by which she would bring that savour to my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A man engrossed in sensual pleasures may form a mistaken out look upon life and think that he enjoys life more than… — Mohammad Qutub Copy Share Image
“in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“There was no way he was going to… But that was exactly what he did. I gasped when I felt his tongue… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
“He discovered another bell, huge as well, but not plain and bare. Its metal sides were covered in scenes, bas-reliefs spreading their… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy… — Folco Portinari Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good. — Alone Boy Copy Share Image
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is the cause for the next life and vishay (sensual pleasure) is the result of the previous life!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for… — Vanessa Wu Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the… — Voltaire 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
