Caress Quotes
137 Caress quotes by 119 unique authors
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To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
— Voltaire
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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,…
— Laura Esquivel
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Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the…
— David O. McKay
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A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls,…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer,…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god…
— N.K. Jemisin
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He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to…
— Edith Wharton
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True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale…
— Stephen King
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Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept…
— Richard Brautigan
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Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just…
— Julia Cameron
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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She had never thought about her name much before, but when he said it, it was as if she were hearing it for the first…
— Cassandra Clare
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There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—”…
— Gaelen Foley
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Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her…
— Nalini Singh
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Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so…
— Suzanne Collins
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it…
— Jack London
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There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.
— Harry Mulisch
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The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more…
— Karen Marie Moning
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His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body.…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall,…
— Margaret Atwood
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last…
— Hermann Hesse
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My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish…
— Victoria Alexander
Who Wrote These Caress Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 137 Caress Quotes, led by these top contributors: